The Internet has democratized speech, creating a forum for public self-expression and connecting billions of speakers listeners who never could have found each other before. is not without faults, to be sure, but before so many people been afforded opportunities speak, heard, share information with others. Just as printing made everyone potential reader, today digitalisation making into author....

The paper presents the results of the empirical study devoted to mapping and measuring the aggregated political positions – viewed as a specific form of discursive public opinion – expressed by ordinary citizens on a discussion forum on the Russian internet. The study is considered as part of the broader inquiry into the field of online deliberations. New evidence is discussed in this regard by...

Closing the health inequity gap can be seen as an issue of justice, however what concretely best serves the interest of justice is in dispute. It is argued that standard policy-making mechanisms are inadequate to address this issue, and therefore more and better public dialogue is required. Drawing on deliberative democratic theory and practice, three public organizing considerations are offere...