How Users Take Advantage of Different Forms of Interactivity on Online News Sites: Clicking, E-Mailing, and Commenting

Boczkowski, Pablo J.; Mitchelstein, Eugenia

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.2011.01418.x

Cited by 119 publications

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“…Not only do users who post comments tend to ignore lightweight news, but they also show strong preferences for posting comments on news events characterized by changes in the local community, politics, and welfare issues. It seems as if news receiving public comment on news sites tend to be less consensual than news shared through personal connections, such as sending links to news through email (Boczkowski & Mitchelstein, 2012).…”

Section: Produced Spaces and Users With Preferencesmentioning

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Commenting, Sharing and Tweeting News

Almgren

Olsson

2016

Nordicom Review

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Social plugins for sharing news through Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly salient features on news sites. Together with the user comment feature, social plugins are the most common way for users to contribute. The wide use of multiple features has opened new areas to comprehensively study users' participatory practices. However, how do these opportunities to participate vary between the participatory spaces that news sites affiliated with local, national broadsheet and tabloid news constitute? How are these opportunities appropriated by users in terms of participatory practices such as commenting and sharing news through Facebook and Twitter? In addition, what differences are there between news sites in these respects? To answer these questions, a quantitative content analysis has been conducted on 3,444 articles from nine Swedish online newspapers. Local newspapers are more likely to allow users to comment on articles than are national newspapers. Tweeting news is appropriated only on news sites affiliated with evening tabloids and national morning newspapers. Sharing news through Facebook is 20 times more common than tweeting news or commenting. The majority of news items do not attract any user interaction.

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Section: Produced Spaces and Users With Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Commenting, Sharing and Tweeting News

Almgren

Olsson

2016

Nordicom Review

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“…In the 1990s and early 2000s, technologies that enabled these more participatory forms of media use were primarily decentralized general purpose tools like email and html websites (Boczkowski & Mitchelstein, 2012). From the 2000s onwards, however, as José van Dijck (2013) explains, the relatively free-flowing technological and social practices associated with participatory culture were increasingly superseded by new forms of "platformed sociality" enabled by easy-to-use dedicated applications developed by individual for-profit companies for particular purposes.…”

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Who Shares and Comments on News?: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Online and Social Media Participation

Kalogeropoulos¹,

Negredo

Picone³

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Social Media + Society

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In this article, we present a cross-national comparative analysis of which online news users in practice engage with the participatory potential for sharing and commenting on news afforded by interactive features in news websites and social media technologies across a strategic sample of six different countries. Based on data from the 2016 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, and controlling for a range of factors, we find that (1) people who use social media for news and a high number of different social media platforms are more likely to also engage more actively with news outside social media by commenting on news sites and sharing news via email, (2) political partisans on both sides are more likely to engage in sharing and commenting particularly on news stories in social media, and (3) people with high interest in hard news are more likely to comment on news on both news sites and social media and share stores via social media (and people with high interest in any kind of news [hard or soft] are more likely to share stories via email). Our analysis suggests that the online environment reinforces some long-standing inequalities in participation while countering other long-standing inequalities. The findings indicate a self-reinforcing positive spiral where the already motivated are more likely in practice to engage with the potential for participation offered by digital media, and a negative spiral where those who are less engaged participate less.

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“…Pese a que la participación de los usuarios en los medios cubre un gran abanico de posibilidades, desde la producción de noticias hasta su lectura, Boczkowski & Mitchelstein (2012) definen tres formas de interactividad en la prensa de información digital: leer una historia, compartir su contenido y hacer un comentario. En este estudio, nos centraremos en la forma más evolucionada y que es la que ha planteado mayores retos en las investigaciones, como es la creación de comentarios por parte de los lectores en las noticias de los periódicos digitales.…”

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Comentarios sobre inmigración en tres periódicos en línea españoles: Aproximación a un discurso racista enmascarado

Pavía

Solà

2016

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How Users Take Advantage of Different Forms of Interactivity on Online News Sites: Clicking, E-Mailing, and Commenting

Cited by 119 publications

References 95 publications

Commenting, Sharing and Tweeting News

Commenting, Sharing and Tweeting News

Who Shares and Comments on News?: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Online and Social Media Participation

Comentarios sobre inmigración en tres periódicos en línea españoles: Aproximación a un discurso racista enmascarado

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