Killing the Comments: Why Do News Organizations Remove User Commentary Functions?

User commentary in digital journalism is commonly understood as a form of public user engagement and participation, a stance that reframes news organizations’ role as discussion curators as necessarily consequential. Yet, in recent years many news organizations have limited, or abandoned altogether,...

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Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Journalism and Media
Main Authors:	Maria N. Nelson, Thomas B. Ksiazek, Nina Springer
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021-10-01
Subjects:	journalism user comments incivility public discourse online news comment feature removal
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/2/4/34