TY - JOUR
T1 - Citizen engagement and the illusion of secrecy
T2 - exploring commenter characteristics in censored online news articles
AU - Yahav, Inbal
AU - Schwartz, David G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/11/2
Y1 - 2018/11/2
N2 - We address the conflict between citizenship engagement through news commenting, and censorship needs. News articles often contain forms of censorship to maintain security, with non-identification of individuals a means of information protection. Commonly used is the replacement of a name with a supposedly non-identifying initial, protecting the identity of military personnel, witnesses, minors, victims or suspects who need to be granted anonymity in the public sphere. We seek to understand the characteristics of commenters including awareness of the potential for social media to circumvent censorship, and attitudes towards censorship in news articles. Our study of censored articles collected from online news pages on Facebook, presents insights into participant characteristics including a strong correlation between personal network size and censorship support.
AB - We address the conflict between citizenship engagement through news commenting, and censorship needs. News articles often contain forms of censorship to maintain security, with non-identification of individuals a means of information protection. Commonly used is the replacement of a name with a supposedly non-identifying initial, protecting the identity of military personnel, witnesses, minors, victims or suspects who need to be granted anonymity in the public sphere. We seek to understand the characteristics of commenters including awareness of the potential for social media to circumvent censorship, and attitudes towards censorship in news articles. Our study of censored articles collected from online news pages on Facebook, presents insights into participant characteristics including a strong correlation between personal network size and censorship support.
KW - Information de-censorship
KW - censorship
KW - citizen engagement
KW - comments
KW - online news
KW - social networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85023740793&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1346135
DO - 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1346135
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AN - SCOPUS:85023740793
SN - 1369-118X
VL - 21
SP - 1620
EP - 1638
JO - Information Communication and Society
JF - Information Communication and Society
IS - 11
ER -
