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  1. Hilliger, I.; Khosravi, H.; Rienties, B.; Dawson, S. (Ed.)
  2. Arastoopour Irgens, G.; Knight, S. (Ed.)
  3. Wasson, B.; Zörgő, S. (Ed.)
    Deliberations are discussions about what an institution, community, or nation should do, and are essential for maintaining a robust democracy. This study examined whether Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) can complement existing methods for assessing deliberations, none of which fully account for the dynamic interplay among specific speech acts and speakers that unfolds over the course of a conversation. In this pilot study, students at two universities deliberated about the same issue online. ENA models of discussions at each university with the content of speech acts as nodes showed differences between discussions at the two universities that were consistent with a qualitative analysis of the transcripts, but also revealed patterns that were not initially apparent in the qualitative account. This suggests that ENA is a valuable tool for modeling deliberations. 
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