What Creates Interactivity in Online News Discussions? An Exploratory Analysis of Discussion Factors in User Comments on News Items

被引：118
|
作者：
Ziegele, Marc [1 ]
Breiner, Timo [1 ]
Quiring, Oliver [1 ]
机构：
[1] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Dept Commun, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
来源：
JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION | 2014年 / 64卷 / 06期
关键词：
Online News Discussions; User-generated Content; User Comments; Interactivity; Discussion Factors; Discourse Architecture; COMMUNICATION; DEMOCRACY;
D O I：
10.1111/jcom.12123
中图分类号：
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号：
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要：
While the social, political, and journalistic relevance of user comments on online news items has been discussed intensively, no study has tried to examine why some online news discussions are more interactive than others. Based on the rationale of news value theory, this study argues that so-called discussion factors in user comments indicate general relevance to later users to respond to them. Qualitative interviews with users who comment on news stories online and a quantitative content analysis of 1,580 user comments showed that the discussion factors uncertainty, controversy, comprehensibility, negativity, and personalization can explain interactivity in news discussions. Further, different technological implementations of the comment function seem to have a limited influence on the effects of these discussion factors.
引用
收藏
页码：1111 / 1138
页数：28
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [21] Deliberation 2.0: Comparing the Deliberative Quality of Online News User Comments Across Platforms
    Rowe, Ian
    JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA, 2015, 59 (04) : 539 - 555
  • [22] Voices of transitions: Korea's online news media and user comments on the energy transition
    Kim, Byungjun
    Yang, Soeun
    Kim, Hana
    ENERGY POLICY, 2024, 187
  • [23] Incivility and Political Identity on the Internet: Intergroup Factors as Predictors of Incivility in Discussions of News Online
    Rains, Stephen A.
    Kenski, Kate
    Coe, Kevin
    Harwood, Jake
    JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, 2017, 22 (04): : 163 - 178
  • [24] Racist comments at online news sites: a methodological dilemma for discourse analysis
    Hughey, Matthew W.
    Daniels, Jessie
    MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY, 2013, 35 (03) : 332 - 347
  • [25] Classifying User Roles in Online News Forums: A Model for User Interaction and Behavior Analysis
    Scholz, Felix
    Kolb, Thomas Elmar
    Neidhardt, Julia
    ADJUNCT PROCEEDINGS OF THE 32ND ACM CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION AND PERSONALIZATION, UMAP 2024, 2024, : 240 - 249
  • [26] The Effects of Personality Traits and Situational Factors on the Deliberativeness and Civility of User Comments on News Websites
    Beckert, Johannes
    Ziegele, Marc
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 2020, 14 : 3924 - 3945
  • [27] What cancer research makes the news? A quantitative analysis of online news stories that mention cancer studies
    Moorhead, Laura
    Krakow, Melinda
    Maggio, Lauren
    PLOS ONE, 2021, 16 (03):
  • [28] Data Set for Stance and Sentiment Analysis from User Comments on Croatian News
    Bosnjak, Mihaela
    Karan, Mladen
    7TH WORKSHOP ON BALTO-SLAVIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (BSNLP'2019), 2019, : 50 - 55
  • [29] How people perceive malicious comments differently: factors influencing the perception of maliciousness in online news comments
    Lee, Saerom
    Baek, Hyunmi
    Kim, Seongcheol
    FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 2023, 14
  • [30] FAKE NEWS IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL MEDIA: WHAT FACTORS AFFECT USER INTERACTIONS WITH FAKE NEWS TARGETING NATIONAL SECURITY?
    Aljasir, Shuaa Abudlrahman
    Bjanaid, Walaa NAji
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FUTURE GENERATION COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING, 2021, 14 (01): : 21 - 36
12345