<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="http://nms.sagepub.com"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><base href="http://nms.sagepub.com"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:sage_contents_alert@alerts.stanford.edu">sage_contents_alert@alerts.stanford.edu</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>New Media & Society OnlineFirst</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">December 2, 2013 11:29:53 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:eddank@aya.yale.edu">eddank@aya.yale.edu</a>><br></span></div><br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hw-gen-page"><div id="header-initialNav"><table><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://nms.sagepub.com//local/img/pub-logo.gif" width="600"></td></tr><tr><td><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><dl><dd><br></dd><dt><hr><strong><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Article</font></strong><hr></dt><dt><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Discourse architecture, ideology, and democratic norms in online political discussion</font></dt><dd><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Deen Freelon</font></dd><dd><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">New Media & Society published 2 December 2013, 10.1177/1461444813513259<br><a href="http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1461444813513259v1?papetoc">http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1461444813513259v1</a><br></font></dd></dl></div></blockquote>ABSTRACT<br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><hr></div></blockquote>Studies of political discussions online have been dominated by approaches that focus exclusively on deliberation, ignoring other equally relevant communication norms. This study conducts a normative assessment of discussion spaces in two prominent web platforms—Twitter hashtags and newspaper comment sections devoted to particular political issues—applying the norms of communitarianism, liberal individualism, and deliberation. The platforms’ distinct design features and users’ left/right issue stances emerge as significant predictors of normative differences. </div><br></body></html>