The Moral Gatekeeper? Moderation and Deletion of User-Generated Content in a Leading News Forum

Participatory formats in online journalism offer increased options for user comments to reach a mass audience, also enabling the spreading of incivility. As a result, journalists feel the need to moderate offensive user comments in order to prevent the derailment of discussion threads. However, litt...

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Published in:	Media and Communication
Main Authors:	Svenja Boberg, Tim Schatto-Eckrodt, Lena Frischlich, Thorsten Quandt
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cogitatio 2018-11-01
Subjects:	community management computational methods forum moderation gatekeeping journalism participatory media Spiegel Online topic modeling user comments user participation
Online Access:	https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1493