With the growth in sociality and interaction around touching national and international topics, news sites are increasingly becoming places for communities to discuss and address issues spurred by news articles. Proponents of cyberspace promise that online discourse will increase political participation and pave the road for a democratic utopia (Papacharissi, 2004). Comment writers, according t...

A defamatory statement is a false or untrue that harms the reputation of living person. In digital environment, content can be easily shared and may remain available online for very long period. At first, anonymous Internet communication was predominantly seen as value in itself – mechanism advances public debate, protects political dissension, furthers due process. However, rapid growth social...

Over the last decade, the retail industry has had a phenomenal growth. All figures show their success and efficiency and many studies have shown the role of customer reviews in encouraging ambivalent purchasers to buy items online. There have been numerous studies on why people read and trust these comments and taking for granted the important role of customer reviews in determining buying deci...

Chapelle (2003) proposed three general types of input enhancement that help L2 learners “acquire features the linguistic they are exposed to during course reading or listening for meaning” (p. 40): salience, modification, and elaboration. In 2010, Cárdenas-Claros Gruba argued Chapelle’s different “can be have been operationalized through options” primarily utilized in teaching reading, listenin...

The author aims at studying the influence of comments and recommendation on online shopping behaviours. With 285 study subjects, the author used experimental research design to study comments and recommendation system on online shopping experience, online shopping satisfaction, online shopping intention and items chosen. The data is analyzed by SPSS 15.0 and LISREL 8.8. The results show that co...

We examine the extent to which we are able to automatically identify constructive online comments. We build several classifiers using New York Times Picks as positive examples and non-constructive thread comments from the Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus as negative examples of constructive online comments. We evaluate these classifiers on a crowdannotated corpus containing 1,121 comments. ...

Online news comments are often confronted with issues of civility and inclusivity, which are sometimes pegged to the anonymity afforded to contributors in those spaces. In this work we study one form of anonymity in online comments that manifests as users changing their display name when they write a given comment. We undertake a predominantly quantitative analysis of how display names are chan...