User Comments: The Transformation of Participatory Space

Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 96-117

  Reich, Zvi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author 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

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876186283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340747.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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