The Imagined Audience for and Perceived Quality of News Comments: Exploring the Perceptions of Commenters on News Sites and on Facebook

A number of news organizations have begun shifting commenting from their websites to Facebook, based on the implicit assumption that commenting on Facebook is an equivalent (or preferred) substitute. Using survey data from 317 online news commenters, and drawing on the concept of imagined audience,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jisu Kim, Seth C. Lewis, Brendan R. Watson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-03-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118765741