The Tricky Bits of Studying Agreement and Disagreement in Online Deliberation
Journal: KOME
Year: 2025

This article provides an overview of current studies dedicated to agreement and disagreement in online deliberation, and explains the relevance and challenges of exploring political disagreement in the digital sphere. Two dominant approaches to understanding disagreement that have existed since the early 2000s are defined that have provoked an acute scientific debate on the ambiguous impacts of disagreement on deliberative process and the participatory activity of citizens. A literature review o