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Digital Spaces of Civic Communication

The Practices and Interfaces of Online Commenting

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  1. Anne Mollen

    1. Münster, Germany

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  • A socio-technical analysis of online commenting

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Online commenting as civic communication

    • Anne Mollen
    Pages 1-10

  3. Theoretical framework to the analysis of online commenting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The socio-technical dialectics of online commenting

      • Anne Mollen
      Pages 13-26

    3. Theorising the interrelation of interfaces and practices

      • Anne Mollen
      Pages 27-45

    4. Strategies and tactics of online commenting

      • Anne Mollen
      Pages 47-64

  4. Interfaces, practices and interactions in online commenting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Research design and method

      • Anne Mollen
      Pages 67-90

    3. Meaning through the interface: Setting a frame for online commenting

      • Anne Mollen
      Pages 91-131

    4. Meaning within practices: Setting the tone for online commenting

      • Anne Mollen
      Pages 133-178

    5. Meaning within interactions: Constructing the issue in online commenting

      • Anne Mollen
      Pages 179-226

    6. Conclusion: Digital spaces of civic communication

      • Anne Mollen
      Pages 227-237

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 239-273
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About this book

This book addresses the socio-technical constitution of civic communication in increasingly digital democracies. Despite problematic phenomena like hate speech in online commenting, it argues that citizens’ potential for resisting technological inscriptions in digital media remains a fundamental democratic right. While producers inscribe anticipations for how people should be discussing political issues into commenting interfaces, citizens still resist these technological inscriptions in their commenting practices. This dialectic interrelation between interfaces and practices highlights the inadequacy of purely technological solutions for undemocratic tendencies in digital media.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Münster, Germany

    Anne Mollen

About the author

The Author
Anne Mollen is research assistant at the Department of Communication at the University of Münster and scientific coordinator at the Research Training Group "Trust and Communication in a Digitized World".

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digital Spaces of Civic Communication

  • Book Subtitle: The Practices and Interfaces of Online Commenting

  • Authors: Anne Mollen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27515-0

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-27514-3Published: 28 August 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-27515-0Published: 20 August 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 273

  • Number of Illustrations: 92 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Communication Studies, Social Media, Media Sociology

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