“Information Warfare” and Online News Commenting: Analyzing Forces of Social Influence Through Location-Based Commenting User Typology

While most of the online participation research assumes the Western notion of fulfilling deliberative practices, online contexts have been also found to be an active battleground for so-called information warfare. To test the potential for online comments being used by cross-national political oppon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Asta Zelenkauskaite, Marcello Balduccini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-07-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117718468