The chapter reconstructs a brief history of online commenting, based on the position comments have to journalistic articles on news websites. Its key assumption is derived from paratext theory: Changes in spatial and temporal proximity of texts in the periphery of a main text––such as comments on the same web page as a journalistic article as compared to posts in a separate forum––indicate controversies over relevance of participants in a public discourse. Studying transformations of online comments is thus considered an access point to studying histories of public spheres. With help of a software the authors and colleagues developed, changes in commenting sections are traced and visualized. These changes are detected in a data sample of archived web pages provided by the Internet Archive.
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Chapter Title
Do user comments belong to journalistic articles? A brief visual history of user interaction on selected German and American news websites 1996–2024
Authors
Johannes Paßmann, Martina Schories, Paul Heinicker
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.20
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age
Book Subtitle
Proceedings of the 5th international RESAW conference, Marseille, June 2023
Editors
Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard
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Number of Pages
362
Publication Year
2024
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2
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979-12-215-0412-5
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979-12-215-0413-2
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979-12-215-0414-9
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Proceedings e report
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2704-601X
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2704-5846