User Comments: The Transformation of Participatory Space

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

175 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationParticipatory Journalism
Subtitle of host publicationGuarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages96-117
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9781444340747
ISBN (Print)9781444332261
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Apr 2011

Keywords

  • Comment management strategies - openness to user comments
  • Dedicated filtering software - detecting racist, profane and hate speech keywords
  • Five approaches to comments - rhetorical aspects, readers and writers, ethical issues, evolution, perception
  • Identification for comment accreditation, use of pseudonyms
  • Journalists and citizen voices, providing channel for extramedia voices
  • Participatory media spaces - allocating journalistic space for citizen voices
  • Registration for comment accreditation, reduction in participation
  • Rejection rates - affected by story topics, management strategies, political climate
  • User comments - transformation of participatory space

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

Cite this