Towards quality discourse in online news comments

Diakopoulos, Nicholas; Нааман, Мор

doi:10.1145/1958824.1958844

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“…1 were indicative of the larger population. Often, what prompts a reader to comment on an online news article is an intense interest or a passionate emotional response [13], and while most Internet users read online news articles, they do not tend to comment [4]. Thus, we expect that users with strong and polarized opinions predominately comment on these articles, while there remains a silent non-commenting majority who are primarily apathetic towards (or even unaware of) the use of female bathrooms by transgender females.…”

Section: Scaling To the General Populationmentioning

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Which Gender is More Concerned About Transgender Women in Female Bathrooms?

Stones

2016

Gend. Issues

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We enumerate 1035 user comments from 190 online articles to gauge public opinion about safety and privacy when transgender women use female bathrooms. In these comments, we find that cisgender males are around 1.559 as likely to express concern about safety and privacy as cisgender females. Moreover, we find that when expressing concern (a) cisgender females are around 49 as likely as cisgender males to assert that transgender women do not directly cause their safety and privacy concerns, typically emphasizing their concerns are about 'perverts' posing as transgender females, and (b) cisgender males are around 1.59 as likely as cisgender females to assert that transgender females directly cause their safety and privacy concerns. We theorize that the heightened concern seen in males in these comments stems from them being more likely to view transgender females not as females, but as males who are lying or mistaken about their gender, and consequently they view themselves as protecting females from these males intruding into private, female-only spaces. This may be further exacerbated by a fear of deception and a belief that transgender people are mentally ill or 'sick'.

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Section: Scaling To the General Populationmentioning

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Which Gender is More Concerned About Transgender Women in Female Bathrooms?

Stones

2016

Gend. Issues

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“…News organizations now actively employ SNSs to expand their reach [45], and research indicates that SNSs allow a more rapid spread of news through individual sharing of stories [10]. As a result, every individual can become a news source, which raises concerns about the validity of news sources and the spread of fake news.…”

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Combating Fake News: An Investigation of Information Verification Behaviors on Social Networking Sites

Torres¹,

Gerhart²,

Negahban³

2018

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Therefore, they should encourage more users to voice their opinions and thereby influence the amount of participation in commenting on the aggregate level. The second assumption is that existing knowledge and experience (including having an opinion on an issue) are crucial to the motivation to comment (Diakopoulos and Naaman, 2011b;Springer, 2011). Because there is a systematic relationship between some news factors and the likelihood of prior knowledge from previous news reporting, these news factors should influence the willingness to comment and will therefore affect the overall amount of participation.…”

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Discussions in the comments section: Factors influencing participation and interactivity in online newspapers’ reader comments

Weber

2013

New Media & Society

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Posting comments on the news is one of the most popular forms of user participation in online newspapers, and there is great potential for public discourse that is associated with this form of user communication. However, this potential arises only when several users participate in commenting and when their communication becomes interactive. Based on an adaption of Galtung and Ruge's theory of newsworthiness, we hypothesized that a news article's news factors affect both participation levels and interactivity in a news item's comments section. The data from an online content analysis of political news are consistent with the hypotheses. This article explores the ways in which news factors affect participation levels and interactivity, and it discusses the theoretical, normative, and practical implications of those findings.

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Towards quality discourse in online news comments

Cited by 246 publications

References 21 publications

Which Gender is More Concerned About Transgender Women in Female Bathrooms?

Which Gender is More Concerned About Transgender Women in Female Bathrooms?

Combating Fake News: An Investigation of Information Verification Behaviors on Social Networking Sites

Discussions in the comments section: Factors influencing participation and interactivity in online newspapers’ reader comments

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