[csaa-forum] Media at Sydney: Fiona Martin Nov. 7th "Fakers, trolls, 'turfers and shouty men: visibility and exclusion in online news commenting"

[Cesar Albarran Torres]

Media at Sydney presents
 Fakers, trolls, 'turfers and shouty men: visibility and exclusion in online news commenting
Dr Fiona Martin (Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney)
The news media’s embrace of user commenting and online debate now underpins journalism’s claim to a civic role, its search for deeper audience knowledge and its exploration of new revenue streams. However a closer analysis of commenting systems reveals the limits to their democratic potential, and highlights the governance debates emerging around the institutionalisation of participatory journalism.
In this seminar Fiona Martin explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in news commenting, via a comparative study of newscommenting across three countries and 15 news media sites. The research draws on multimodal analysis of news websites, data analytics on comment streams and interviews with online editorial workers to reveal how the design and governance of commenting systems shapes and constrains participation. It highlights social and cultural trends in commenting systems, including the dominance of male identified voice, preferences for pseudonymity and the challenges of managing unruly subjectivities. It also provides new insights into the differences in user engagement and participation across news mediapublications and sectors.
Date: Friday 7th November, 2014
Time: 15:00-16:30
Location: S226 Seminar Room, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, John Woolley Building (A20)<http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15> level 2, entry off Manning Road.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/fakers-trolls-turfers-and-shouty-men-the-dynamics-of-visibility-and-exclusion-in-online-news-tickets-13772047565


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