Crowdsourcing civility: A natural experiment examining the effects of distributed moderation in online forums

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 317-326

  Lampe, Cliff ^a   Zube, Paul ^b   Lee, Jusil ^c   Park, Chul Hyun ^c   Johnston, Erik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deliberation; Human computer interaction; Moderation systems; Politics; Public administration; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899910881     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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