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Mechanisms of Deliberating Together

Chapter 5 discusses the mechanisms allowing citizens to deliberate together on an everyday basis: their social-qua-communicative networks. It distinguishes between two models of deliberation: synchronic-group deliberation and serial-diachronic deliberation. The first is exemplified by mini-publics and other formally organized group deliberative events, the second by informal networked deliberation occurring everyday among citizens. The chapter argues that informal networked deliberation can serve as the main platform for a real existing deliberative democracy. It can satisfy at the macro level the classic deliberative-democratic standards of inclusion, equality, and reciprocity that small-scale organized group deliberations can achieve only in micro settings.