Frequent Contributors Within U.S. Newspaper Comment Forums
Frequent Contributors Within U.S. Newspaper Comment Forums
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美国报纸评论论坛的频繁贡献者
DOI：
10.1177/0002764214527094
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
R. Lange
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文献类型：
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作者：
R. Blom;Serena Carpenter;B. Bowe;R. Lange
新闻机构的在线评论工具被吹捧为审议过程的福音，但只有在不同的参与者群体使用它们的程度上，这些参与者是文明的，他们提供的信息丰富了对话。在这项研究中，研究人员分析了报纸论坛上的帖子来自频繁贡献者的程度，以及这些帖子的民间和信息特征。对15家美国日报网站评论文章附近论坛上的评论（N = 2237）进行了内容分析，以评估其文明程度（不文明的性格攻击和不文明的语言）和信息属性。频繁的贡献者——在短时间内经常在论坛上发帖的人——不太可能是文明的和信息丰富的。
News organizations’ online commenting tools have been touted as a boon for the deliberative process, yet only to the extent that they are used by a diverse group of participants who are civil and who provide information that enriches dialogue. The researchers in this study analyzed the degree to which posts in newspaper forums originated from frequent contributors and the civil and informational characteristics of those contributions. A content analysis of comments (N = 2,237) within forums adjacent to opinion articles on websites of 15 U.S. newspaper dailies was conducted to assess their civility (uncivil character attacks and uncivil language) and informational attributes. Frequent contributors—people who post often on a forum in a short period—were less likely to be civil and informational.