Can AI Gauge Deliberative Quality? Evaluating Deliberation on Social Media With Large Language Models

The study evaluates open-weight language models on aspects of deliberation such as civility, reciprocity, emotion, and storytelling. The authors use the Database of Public Speakers to identify public speakers and compare how they and other users participate in German-language climate debates on X.

Citation: Frey, P., Bhattacharya, S., Wiedemann, G., & Puschmann, C. (2026). Can AI Gauge Deliberative Quality? Evaluating Deliberation on Social Media With Large Language Models. Media and Communication, 14, Article 12494.

Publication: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.12494

Tags: #publication, #computational-methods, #NLP, #climate, #X, #DBÖS