The Moral Gatekeeper? Moderation and Deletion of User-Generated Content in a Leading News Forum

Participatory formats in online journalism offer increased options for user comments to reach a mass audience, also enabling the spreading of incivility. As a result, journalists feel the need to moderate offensive user comments in order to prevent the derailment of discussion threads. However, litt...

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Main Author: Boberg, Svenja (author)
Other Authors: Schatto-Eckrodt, Tim (author), Frischlich, Lena (author), Quandt, Thorsten (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
Subjects:
community management; computational methods; forum moderation; gatekeeping; journalism; participatory media; Spiegel Online; topic modeling; user comments; user participation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i4.1493
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1493

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https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i4.1493

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