We sift through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are 10 of the most interesting studies about social and digital media published in 2015.
“I certainly had editors tell me that I shouldn’t be wasting my time on Bird Week. But that was the best part of City Room…We were like unsupervised children.”
Recode, Reuters, Popular Science, The Week, Mic, The Verge, and USA Today’s FTW have all shut off reader comments in the past year. Here’s how they’re all using social media to encourage reader discussion.
This new study uses old data, but it gives at least some hope that comment sections might not always be as awful as the reporters writing the stories above them think.
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Troll toll: Tablet is now charging its readers for the right to comment." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 10 Feb. 2015. Web. 4 Feb. 2023.
APA
O'Donovan, C. (2015, Feb. 10). Troll toll: Tablet is now charging its readers for the right to comment. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/02/troll-toll-tablet-is-now-charging-its-readers-for-the-right-to-comment/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Troll toll: Tablet is now charging its readers for the right to comment." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 10, 2015. Accessed February 4, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/02/troll-toll-tablet-is-now-charging-its-readers-for-the-right-to-comment/.
Wikipedia
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