Who Is Part of the Problem?: Critical Analysis of New York Times Readers’ Comments on the Environmental Cost of Fashion Consumption

Karpova, Elena; Bayat, Farimah; Best, Kelly L. Reddy

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“…Diakopoulos (2015) found an association between editor-pick comments and article relevance or conversational relevance on NYT. Karpova, Best, and Bayat (2020) analyzed voluntary online comments posted on NYT to study consumer views towards sustainability in the fashion industry. Kolhatkar and Taboada (2017a,b) defined and identified constructive comments from news articles (NYT and Yahoo News), and further examined the relationship between constructiveness and toxicity.…”

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Making the Pick: Understanding Professional Editor Comment Curation in Online News

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Shekhar

et al. 2024

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Online comments within news articles are a key way people share opinions. Discovering insightful comments can, however, be challenging for readers. A solution to this problem is using comment curation, whereby professional editors select the highest quality comments manually --- referred to as ''editor-picks''. This paper studies the growing use of professional editor-curation for user-generated comments. We focus on the New York Times as a case study, using a dataset covering 80k articles. We study the characteristics of editor-pick comments, highlighting how editor criteria vary across news sections (e.g. sports, entertainment). We find that editor-pick comments tend to be longer, more relevant to the article, positive in sentiment, and contain low toxicity. Our analysis further reveals that editors within different news sections exhibit differing criteria when they perform comment selection. Thus, we finally propose a set of models that can automatically identify good candidate editor-picks. Our ultimate goal is to reduce editor and journalistic workload, increasing productivity and the quality of curated comments.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%