(In)civility and online deliberation: readers’ reactions to race-related news stories

Autor: Marthinus Conradie, Susan I. Brokensha
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Safundi. 18:327-348
ISSN: 1543-1304
1753-3171
DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2017.1335000
Popis: Reacting to an increase in gratuitous racist and sexist comments made by readers in response to online articles, media outlets in South Africa have begun closing down their comments sections, an action that has been repeated many times over across the globe. After a particularly abusive tirade against a young women who wrote an article about being black in Cape Town, Independent Media established an advisory panel in 2014 to investigate the nature of user-generated content (UGC) on their news site, Independent Online (IOL). One of the panel’s recommendations was that what is meant by “uncivil” discourse on online news sites be delineated more accurately and narrowly. Employing computer-mediated discourse analysis, we explore the nature of civility and incivility generated by readers of online news. We look at readers’ posts in response to race-based topics and uncover the complexities inherent in describing both (in)civility and deliberative discourse precisely. Our sample is drawn from the South ...
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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