Social Networks and Deliberative Democracy

This paper intends to connect general aspects of deliberative democracy theories to specific mechanisms available to social network users. We demonstrate which social network tools foster the constitution of a public sphere and the development of a deliberative democracy, specially when adopted by government communicative. To do so, we systematize the theoretical structure of deliberative democracy and evaluate specific tools, showing brazillian examples of its use. We believe this type of analysis is relevant to the conception of future communication between government agencies and society to maximize its deliberative potencial