Mark Aakhus

Musi, Elena and Mark Aakhus 2019 Framing fracking: Semantic frames as meta-argumentative indicators for knowledge-driven argument mining of controversies Environmental Argumentation, Lewiński, Marcin and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün (eds.), pp. 112–135 | Article

This article offers a first large scale analysis of argumentative polylogues in the fracking controversy. It provides an empirical methodology (macroscope) that identifies, from large quantities of text data through semantic frame analysis, the many players, positions and places presumed… read more

Aakhus, Mark 2015 Deliberation digitized: Designing disagreement space through communication-information services Argumentation in Political Deliberation, Lewiński, Marcin and Dima Mohammed (eds.), pp. 101–126 | Article

A specific issue for argumentation theory is whether information and communication technologies (ICTs) play any role in governing argument — that is, as parties engage in practical activities across space and time via ICTs, does technology matter for the interplay of argumentative content and… read more

Aakhus, Mark 2013 Deliberation digitized: Designing disagreement space through communication-information services Argumentation in political deliberation, Lewiński, Marcin and Dima Mohammed (eds.), pp. 101–126 | Article

A specific issue for argumentation theory is whether information and communication technologies (ICTs) play any role in governing argument — that is, as parties engage in practical activities across space and time via ICTs, does technology matter for the interplay of argumentative content and… read more

Aakhus, Mark and Leon V. Laureij 2012 Activity, materiality, and creative struggle in the communicative constitution of organizing: Two cases of communication design practice Dialogue and Representation, Létourneau, Alain and François Cooren (eds.), pp. 41–59 | Article

Communication design practice involves transforming given situations into preferred courses of action. This ubiquitous feature of organizational and professional life presents an opportunity for advancing theory about the constitutive role of communication in organizing (CCO). Extant CCO argues… read more

Aakhus, Mark and Marcin Lewiński 2011 Argument analysis in large-scale deliberation Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article

Aakhus, Mark and Alena L. Vasilyeva 2008 Managing disagreement in multiparty deliberation Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 197–214 | Article

Weger, Jr, Harry and Mark Aakhus 2005 12. Competing demands, multiple ideals, and the structure of argumentation practices: A pragma-dialectical analysis of televised town hall meetings following the murder trial of O.J. Simpson Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peter Houtlosser (eds.), pp. 181–195 | Chapter

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