The members of this group are involved or interested in research on deliberation, especially in the analysis of the process of deliberation both face-to-face and online. Subject for discussion are theoretical issues as well as methodological issues such as
- data retrieval: importing data from the web or elsewhere into the coding software
- selection: which cases to select? and if the number of messages is huge:
how to select a representative sample of messages for analysis?
- codes: which codes to choose for assessing deliberation?
- reliability: how to asses inter-rater reliability?
- ...

If you like to join the group, please register at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deliberation_research (or send a mail to trenel@wz-berlin.de) and post a short description of your research project or interests.