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A study of online news services and discussion fora on the web and their respective policies for filtering or monitoring reader comments.
The policing of the Internet, like all monitoring of speech and expression, is a potentially hazardous enterprise that runs the risk of silencing views that may in the end turn out to be true/correct or in other ways important to society.
What policies are used by editors for excluding certain views and allowing others? From which norms, principles and legal requirements are the policies used derived? How are they implemented, and in what ways can they be related to the informal norms of discussion fora on the web? What are the motives for readers to comment e.g. newspaper articles compared to taking part in discussions in a webforum? How and by whom are these comments archived, saved for the future and made available to the general public? And what could the effect of various filtering or monitoring policies, including their archive functions, be on the dissemination of knowledge, and the avoidance of ignorance and deception, in society?
A number of online news services and web fora will be studied and their different strategies compared. The focus is on Swedish news services and web fora, but the study will also comprise a comparative perspective. The study will be conducted in an historical perspective and within a socio-technical theoretical framework.
The policing of the Internet, like all monitoring of speech and expression, is a potentially hazardous enterprise that runs the risk of silencing views that may in the end turn out to be true/correct or in other ways important to society.
What policies are used by editors for excluding certain views and allowing others? From which norms, principles and legal requirements are the policies used derived? How are they implemented, and in what ways can they be related to the informal norms of discussion fora on the web? What are the motives for readers to comment e.g. newspaper articles compared to taking part in discussions in a webforum? How and by whom are these comments archived, saved for the future and made available to the general public? And what could the effect of various filtering or monitoring policies, including their archive functions, be on the dissemination of knowledge, and the avoidance of ignorance and deception, in society?
A number of online news services and web fora will be studied and their different strategies compared. The focus is on Swedish news services and web fora, but the study will also comprise a comparative perspective. The study will be conducted in an historical perspective and within a socio-technical theoretical framework.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 2013/01/01 → 2017/12/31 |
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Knowledge in a Digital World: Trust, Credibility and Relevance on the Web
Felix, C. V. (Researcher), Genot, E. (Researcher), Olsson, E. J. (PI), Masterton, G. (Researcher), Ahlstrom-Vij, K. (Researcher), Rendsvig, R. K. (Researcher), Obelitz Søe, S. (Researcher), von Gerber, Y. (Researcher), Fransson, J. (Researcher), Andersson, C. (Researcher), Haider, J. (Researcher), Ilshammar, L. (Researcher), Lindsköld, L. (Researcher), Sundin, O. (PI), Kjellberg, S. (Researcher) & Carlsson, H. (Researcher)
2013/01/01 → 2017/12/31
Project: Research