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Does conversation online often lead to deeper understanding of important issues? In this talk, research will be presented in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech about understanding and supporting online discussion of difficult issues. In the first study, we interviewed people who had disagreements with others on Facebook. We find that conflict often results not from disagreement but from violation of expectations. Design recommendations for social media platforms will be presented that could help mitigate disagreements, and ideas to help people have productive, hard conversations. In the second study, we interviewed people who discuss guns and gun policy on Reddit, from both a pro- and anti- gun perspective. We find that members of pro- and anti- gun groups rarely interact. However, many people who post to highly partisan groups admit to actually holding more moderate views on some issues. Unfortunately, they would not feel comfortable posting about moderate views for

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