Racist comments at online news sites: a methodological dilemma for discourse analysis
Racist comments at online news sites: a methodological dilemma for discourse analysis
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在线新闻网站上的种族主义评论：话语分析的方法论困境
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10.1177/0163443712472089
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2013
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Jessie Daniels
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M. Hughey;Jessie Daniels
2004年，由于互联网的普及，人们对公共领域充满了希望，许多美国报纸的网络部门都开放了自己的网站征求意见。现在，这项实验已经进行了九年，许多报纸已经放弃了允许评论的做法。在线新闻网站已经采取了各种策略来处理攻击性评论，包括关闭评论，不存档评论，以及采取积极的评论审核政策。这些策略提出了研究人员谁希望了解如何在主流新闻网站的新的公共领域的种族主义运作与一套方法论的困境。在这篇文章中，我们（1）列出了系统调查公共领域在线评论中普遍存在的种族主义模式的方法论陷阱，（2）建议学者可以处理这些方法论复杂性的步骤。最后，我们指出在线内容审核的更广泛的影响。
In 2004, awash with the hope for a public sphere reinvigorated by the popular internet, the online arms of many U.S. newspapers opened their websites for comments. Now, nine years into this experiment, many newspapers have abandoned the practice of allowing comments. Online news sites have adopted a variety of strategies to deal with offensive comments, including turning “comments off,” not archiving comments, and adopting aggressive comment moderation policies. These strategies present researchers who wish to understand how racism operates in the new public sphere of mainstream news sites with a set of methodological dilemmas. In this article we (1) lay out the methodological pitfalls for the systematic investigation of the prevalent pattern of racism in online comments in the public sphere and (2) suggest steps by which scholars may deal with these methodological intricacies. We conclude by pointing to the broader implications of online content moderation.