Mark Aakhus investigates the relationship between communication and design, especially the uses of technological and organizational design, to augment human interaction and reasoning for decision-making and conflict-management. He uses multiple methods from discourse analysis and computational social science to examine language, argumentation, and social interaction in professional practice, organizational processes, and information infrastructures.
Argument Mining: Laboratory for the Study of Applied Language Technology and Society Designing common(s) ground for open innovation: Social media and information systems for deliberation and collective intelligence in health decision making Sustainability communication: Controversy and rationality in polylogues about the environment and wellness in the new media ecology Information Infrastructures and Digital Social Ontology: Accountability and communication in digital society