Nieman Foundation at Harvard
Fifty-five percent of Americans have posted an online comment and 78 percent have read comments, according to a report released Monday at SXSW by the Engaging News Project out of the University of Texas at Austin. The report also suggests, however, that over half of Americans have never read news-related comments or commented anywhere (dedicated apps, social media, the news sites themselves) about the news. Fourteen percent have left any sort of comments on news stories:
Of those leaving news comments, the majority posted via social media (77.9 percent), and most (53 percent) posted on a monthly basis or even less frequently.
The report pulls out a few other findings about the demographics of news commenters:
— Compared to those who read news comments but did not themselves comment, those commenting on the news “tend[ed] to be more male, have lower levels of education, and have lower incomes.”
— Compared to those who posted comments on the news infrequently, those who posted comments on the news on a weekly basis (or even more frequently) were similarly “more male, have lower levels of education, and have lower incomes. They [were] are less white and more Hispanic.”
Respondents were asked why they left comments. Responses ran the gamut, but the top reason was “to express an emotion or an opinion,” followed by “adding information,” “correcting inaccuracies or misinformation,” and “taking part in the debate.” These responses varied based on the topic people commented on most frequently:— Those who commented most on U.S. politics did so to express an emotion or opinion, to take part in the debate, to educate others, and to balance the discussion, compared to those who commented most on stories about their neighborhood or community.
— Those who commented most frequently on news about their neighborhood or community were more likely to comment to share an experience, be part of the community, or show sympathy to others, compared to those who commented most on U.S. politics.
The responses to the survey were collected between November and December 2015 by market research group GfK from a “representative sample” of Americans, with complete data from 1,471 respondents. The report breaks out a number of other tidbits around online news commenting, including whether commenters would like journalists/experts to weigh in on facts (yes) and whether they’d be willing to pay for comments (no). The full report is available here.
2,715 comments:
Thanks for finally talking about > blog topic < Liked it!
payday loan
buy viagra online
Hello just wanted to give you a brief heads up and let you
know a few of the images aren’t loading properly.
I’m not sure why but I think its a linking issue. I’ve tried it in two
different browsers and both show the same results.
It’s in fact very complicated in this active life to listen news on TV, thus I simply use internet for that purpose, and take the hottest information.
Whoa! This blog looks exactly like my old one! It’s on a completely different subject but it has pretty much the same layout and design. Superb choice of colors!
Link exchange is nothing else however it is just placing the other
person’s website link on your page at proper place and other person will also do
similar for you.
fantastic publish, very informative. I ponder why the other experts of this sector don’t notice this. You must continue your writing. I’m confident, you have a huge readers’ base already!
I have been surfing online more than three hours today, yet
I never found any interesting article like yours.
It’s pretty worth enough for me. Personally, if all web owners and bloggers made good
content as you did, the internet will be much more
useful than ever before.
I just like the helpful info you provide on your articles.
I will bookmark your weblog and take a look at again here regularly.
I’m quite sure I will be informed many new stuff proper here!
Good luck for the next!
I enjoy looking through a post that will make people think.
Also, thank you for allowing for me to comment!
I appreciate, cause I found exactly what I was looking for. You’ve ended my four day long hunt! God Bless you man. Have a nice day. Bye
I’ll right away grab your rss as I can’t find your email subscription link or newsletter service. Do you’ve any? Please let me know in order that I could subscribe. Thanks.
What i don’t understood is in truth how you are not really much more neatly-appreciated
than you may be right now. You are very intelligent. You recognize thus considerably with
regards to this matter, made me in my opinion believe it from numerous numerous angles.
Its like women and men aren’t interested except it is something to
do with Lady gaga! Your individual stuffs outstanding.
At all times take care of it up!
my website; billionaire brain wave reviews
My spouse and I stumbled over here from a
different website and thought I might as well check things out.
I like what I see so now i’m following you. Look
forward to checking out your web page repeatedly.
Trackbacks:
Leave a comment