The technology that allows readers to post anonymous online comments on newspaper websites gives readers unprecedented opportunities to participate, but poses challenges to the journalistic value of transparency, practice of gatekeeping, and conception of expertise. This nationwide survey of 583 U.S. journalists explores whether the technology has affected their work practices, workplaces, or n...

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The paper investigated how adult L2 readers with an alphabetic language background learning a language that is orthographically distinctive from their L1, develop awareness of the structural and functional properties of small units of the unfamiliar script. The focus of the present paper is on developing awareness of the structural and functional properties of sub-character units (components) o...

Online news sites often include a comments section where readers are allowed to leave their thoughts. These comments often contain interesting and insightful conversations between readers about the news article. However the richness of these conversations is often lost among other meaningless comments, and moreover all comments are found at the bottom of the web page. In this article, we discus...

Online commenting to news articles provides a communication channel between media professionals and readers offering a crucial tool for opinion exchange and freedom of expression. Currently, comments are detached from the news article and thus removed from the context that they were written for. In this work, we propose a method to connect readers’ comments to the news article segments they ref...

In this paper we aim to model the relationship between the text of a political blog post and the comment volume—that is, the total amount of response—that a post will receive. We seek to accurately identify which posts will attract a high-volume response, and also to gain insight about the community of readers and their interests. We design and evaluate variations on a latentvariable topic mode...