Realising Democracy Amid Communicative Plenty: A Deliberative Approach

不断增加的政治交流（尤其是在线）对民主和有效的政策制定提出了挑战。这个项目的目的是研究在交际丰富的新政治中，话语是否、如何、为什么以及在不同地点内部和之间流动的效果。本研究采用协商民主的理念，将公民和决策者之间有意义的沟通置于有效治理的核心。它利用定性和“大数据”技术收集信息，对澳大利亚煤层气的争议进行了审慎分析。所产生的知识预计将为将协商民主付诸实践以及更有效的环境治理的努力提供信息。

The ever-increasing volume of political communication (especially online) challenges democracy and effective policy making. The aim of this project is to examine whether, how, why, and to what effect discourse flows within and between different sites in the new politics of communicative plenty. This research applies the idea of deliberative democracy, which puts meaningful communication between citizens and policy makers at the heart of effective governance. It develops a deliberative analysis of controversy surrounding coal seam gas in Australia, using qualitative and 'big data' techniques to collect information. The knowledge generated is expected to inform efforts to put deliberative democracy into practice, as well as more effective environmental governance.