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Commenting life behind the paywall Members Public

Douglas Boulton [http://dougbolton.co.uk], one of this academic year’s crop of Interactive Journalism students at City, has just finished a couple of weeks as Ben Whitelaw’s personal coffee tabledoing shifts on The Times‘s community desk [http://www.interhacktives.com/2014/12/31/how-to-comment-online-without-being-a-jerk/] , and he’

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Who can fix your comments? Your journalists Members Public

What happens when journalists interact with the comments section [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/what-happens-when-journalists-interact-with-comments/s2/a555603/] ? > Over a study period of 70 days, the TV station reacted to comments on its Facebook page in one of three ways: a prominent political reporter interacted with commenters; the station,

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Why "real names" commenting isn't a panacea Members Public

Cory Doctorow explores the disaster that YouTube’s switch to Google+ commenting [http://boingboing.net/2013/11/13/vi-hart-cramming-g-into-yout.html] has been: > The promise of G+ in the beginning was that making people use their real names would incentivize them to behave themselves. It’s abundantly clear now that

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The aviation debate Members Public

[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/10/on-my-way-to-berlin.jpg] Eric Holthaus wrote a piece for Quartz, explaining his Damascene conversion in San Fransisco airport, and his decision to quit flying [http://qz.com/129477/why-im-never-flying-again/]: > So I guess last week’s report hit me harder

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Comments: we're talking about the wrong thing Members Public

Daniel Ha, CEO of Disqus, writing for WIRED [http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/02/anonymity-isnt-the-problem-with-web-comments/] : > But for too long, the debate about online discussion has been about the commenters. We need to move away from pointing the finger at pseudonyms or anonymity as the sole problem, because it’

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Why comments matter: conversation Members Public

> The purpose of writing on blogs, community sites like Comment is free, and much of social media is to start or further a conversation – not to share a few writerly pearls of wisdom. The great majority of writers on this site (and the New Statesman, for that matter) are

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The sad and dolorous fate of "engagement" Members Public

The word "engagement" has been hollowed out by the social media gurus who have no concept of its sophistication.

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#newsrw - Social Media Optimisation Members Public

Liveblog of a panel debate about social media from news:rewired in February 2012

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