Having your say: The social organisation of online news commentary

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Cavanagh, Allison ^a   Dennis, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Debate; Interaction; Internet; Media; News commentary; Online forums; Opinion; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878467401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.2919     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Allan, S. (2006) Online News. New York: Open University Press.
2. Allan, S., & Thorsen, E. (2010) 'Journalism, public service and BBC News Online', in Meikle, G. and Redden, G. (Eds), News Online: Transformation and Continuity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 20-37.
3. Becker, H. (1974) 'Art as Collective Action', American Sociological Review 39(6) p. 767-776.
4. Bennett, W. (2003) 'New media power: The internet and global activism', in Couldry, N. and Curran, J. (Eds), Contesting Media Power. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
5. Blood, R. (2002) We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture. Cambridge, MA: Perseus.
6. Bruns, A. (2008) Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. New York: Peter Lang.
7. Cavanagh, A. (2007) Sociology in the Age of the Internet. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
8. Chambers, D., Steiner, L. & Fleming, C. (2004) Women and Journalism. London: Routledge.
9. Cohen, S. (1972) Folk Devils and Moral Panics. London: MacGibbon and Kee.
10. Friedland, L.A. (1996) 'Electronic Democracy and the New Citizenship', Media, Culture and Society 18(2) p. 185-212.
11. Garrett, R.K. (2006) Protest in an information society: A review of literature on social movements and new ICTs. Information, Communication and Society 9(2) p. 202-224.
12. Gilmour, D. (2006) We the Media: Grassroots Media by the People for the People. Sebastapol, CA: O'Reilly.
13. Gladwell, M. (2000) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. London: Little, Brown.
14. Habermas, J. (1989) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge: Polity.
15. Jenkins, H. (2006) Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. New York: New York University Press.
16. Jones, A. (1990) 'Local journalism in Victorian political culture', in Brake, L., Jones, A. and Madden, L. (Eds), Investigating Victorian Journalism. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
17. Katz, E., & Lazarsfeld, P. (1955) Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
18. McNair, B. (2009) News and Journalism in the UK, 5th ed. London: Routledge.
19. Mason, P. (2012) Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions. London: Verso.
20. Meyer, P. (2004) The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
21. Mills, C.W. (1956) The Power Elite. New York: Oxford University Press.
22. Moses, G. (2005) 'Religion, rural society, and moral panic in mid-Victorian England', in Rowbotham, J. and Stevenson, K. (Eds), Victorian Crimes, Social Panic, and Moral Outrage, p. 40-54. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
23. Parsons, T. (1951) The Social System. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
24. Poster, M. (1995) The Second Media Age. London: Polity.
25. Royle, E. (1990) 'Newspapers and periodicals in historical research', in Brake, L., Jones, A. and Madden, L. (Eds), Investigating Victorian Journalism. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
26. Schudson, M. (1978) Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. New York: Basic Books.
27. Schultz, T. (2000) 'Mass media and the concept of interactivity: An exploratory study of online forums and reader email', Media, Culture and Society, 22(2) p. 205-221.
28. Sparks, C. (1998) 'Is there a global public sphere?' in Thussu, D. (Ed.), Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance. New York: Arnold, p. 108-124.
29. Tannen, D. (1990) You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: Ballentine.
30. Thompson, E.P. (1980) Sir, Writing by Candlelight. London: Merlin.
31. Wahl-Jorgensen, K. (2007) Journalists and the Public: Newsroom Culture, Letters to the Editor and Democracy. New York: Hampton.
32. Wilhelm, A.C. (2000) Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge.
33. Zhuo, X., Wellman, B. & Yu, J. (2011) 'Egypt: The first internet revolt?' Peace Magazine, 27(3): 6-9.