Online Newspapers’ Readers’ Comments - Democratic Conversation Platforms or Virtual Soapboxes?
Online Newspapers’ Readers’ Comments - Democratic Conversation Platforms or Virtual Soapboxes?
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在线报纸的读者评论——民主对话平台还是虚拟肥皂盒？
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2013
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Janne Berg
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Kim Strandberg;Janne Berg
公民之间的在线讨论在很长一段时间内一直受到学术辩论和一些实证研究的影响。学者们已经设想这些作为公民审议的潜在场所。然而，经验研究结果往往不支持这些概念。讨论的质量往往达不到真正深思熟虑的讨论的标准。尽管如此，有证据表明，在线讨论场所应用主持人，固定主题和积极执行讨论规则，可以避免许多讨论质量问题。因此，本文探讨读者在芬兰报纸网站上的评论是否类似于民主对话。在2010年春季的三周时间里，我们对300条读者评论进行了内容分析。我们的研究结果表明，虽然在在线读者评论中可以找到民主对话的菌株，但也有许多情况下，相反的情况是正确的。
Online discussions between citizens have been subject to scholarly debate and several empirical studies for a substantial period of time. Scholars have envisioned these as potential venues for citizens’ deliberation. Often, however, empirical findings do not support these notions. The quality of discussion is often not up to the standards of truly deliberative discussions. Nonetheless, there are strains of evidence suggesting that online discussion venues applying facilitators, fixed topics and actively enforcing discussion rules, may avoid many of the problems with discussion quality. This article therefore examines whether readers’ comments on a Finnish newspaper’s website resemble democratic conversations. During the course of three weeks in spring 2010, we content analyze 300 reader comments. Our findings indicate that although there are strains of democratic conversations to be found in online reader comments, there are also many instances in which the opposite holds true.