Assessing the climate of public opinion in the user comments era
A new epistemology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7478352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olga Soffer (0000-0001-5955-6845, The Open University of Israel, Israel, corresponding author), Oren Soffer (The Open University of Israel, Israel) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 772-787 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464884917714938 |
| OpenAlex | W2733581258 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article examines the role of user comments in evaluating the climate of public opinion. It aims to evaluate the relevance of quasi-statistical assessment of public opinion – which was tailored to traditional media – to the digital era. The article, based on 21 interviews with Israeli users of news websites, argues that comments-browsing on the Internet gives a new meaning to the notion of a quasi-statistical assessment of public opinion. The aggregation of different comments, each of which contains an implicit cue for the climate of public opinion, transforms them together into a direct cue. The effect of the merging of journalistic contents with user-generated contents side-by-side on the same website is also evaluated through the perspectives of persuasive press inference and exemplification theories
Data science · Digital media · Epistemology · Exemplification · Inference · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Public relations · Relevance (law · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Artificial Intelligence
Exploring active and passive interactions in social networking services
Green Criminology and Rhetoric of Public Opinion
Effects of online user comments on public opinion perception, personal opinion, and willingness to speak out
The Role of User Comments in Estimation of the Public Opinion Climate and Perceived Support for One’s Opinion
Who Are the Online Commenters? A Large-Scale Representative Survey to Explore the Identity and Motivation of Online News Commenters in Comparison to Non-Commenters
Discontent in ‘left-behind places’? How perception of space and local political climate matter for the success of right-wing populism in rural areas of Germany
Disrupting or invigorating an anti-democratic counterpublic? How highly active commenters engage on RT German’s Facebook page
Language, gender and political symbolics
The News Gap
Exemplification Theory
Stimulating the Quasi-statistical Organ
Towards quality discourse in online news comments
User Comments
Media Skepticism and Climate of Opinion Perception
They Came, They Liked, They Commented
What Do Others’ Reactions to News on Internet Portal Sites Tell Us? Effects of Presentation Format and Readers’ Need for Cognition on Reality Perception
The Persuasive Press Inference
The Spiral of Silence a Theory of Public Opinion
When the Media Meet Crowds of Wisdom
A Clash of Cultures
Can online exemplars trigger a spiral of silence? Examining the effects of exemplar opinions on perceptions of public opinion and speaking out
Reading Public Opinion
Weblogs and the Epistemology of the News
What prompts users to click and comment
The inclusion of methodological information in poll-based news
Epistemologies of TV journalism
The Public Opinion Process
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |