Identifying an online comment coming from an expert can increase the credibility of a news article, a new study found. Ivanka Pjesivac of the University of Georgia, Nicholas Geidner of the University of Tennessee and Jaclyn Cameron, examined the effects of source expertise and opinion valence in reader’s comments on the credibility of a news … Continued

The relationship between online commenters and journalists has been a tricky one. News organizations are struggling with how to allow for audience autonomy while still holding on to power and journalistic authority. J. David Wolfgang of Colorado State University researched how journalists attempt to frame commenting and its role alongside journalism. He did 1) a … Continued

Is automated news recommendation a threat to content diversity, leading to audience getting trapped inside “filter bubbles”? Judith Möller, Damian Trilling and Natali Helberger, all of University of Amsterdam, with Bram van Es, of eScience Center, investigated the question through a statistical simulation. The authors used a sample of almost 22 000 news articles published … Continued