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Thursday, April 30, 2020

Changes at the Boston Globe

Changes at the Boston Globe comments policy, published March 9:
We’re experimenting with new ways to generate conversation at Globe Opinion. For the next month, instead of our usual anonymous comments section, we’re inviting you to submit signed 100-word responses to what you read, some of which will get published in our Letters section. On select op-ed columns and editorials we’ll have an audience tool like the one here to collect and publish your feedback.
What do you think about this idea? What would you most like to see in online conversation here and what would entice you to participate?
Ordinary comments appear to still be available at the Globe.
Posted by Joseph Graf at 2:25 PM
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I am an assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. I have been a newspaper reporter, a visiting professor at The George Washington University, and research director for the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet (IPDI).

IPDI is no longer around, but I have linked to many of our research reports about the early days of online politics.

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  • Media sites that have removed online comments
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  • The Coral project
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Articles about online comments

  • How dictators flourish through social media (Big Think, 4/14/19)
  • Why comments sections must die (Salon, 11/17/18)
  • The Internet Trolls Have Won. Sorry, There’s Not Much You Can Do (NYT, 8/8/18)
  • The Atlantic is killing its comments in favor of a new Letters section to showcase reader feedback (Nieman Lab, 2/2/18)
  • Keeping The Times Civil, 16 Million Comments and Counting (7/1/17, NYT)
  • The Times Sharply Increases Articles Open for Comments, Using Google’s Technology (NYT, 6/13/17)
  • What online comments can reveal about the person behind the keyboard (Globe and Mail, 5/17/17)
  • The Trend Of Killing News Comment Sections Because You 'Just Really Value Conversation' Stupidly Continues (9/23/15, Techdirt)
  • What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments (9/16/15, NiemanLab)
  • The Transition to Digital Journalism, Berkeley Advanced Media Institute (2014)
  • News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments (NYT, 4/11/10)
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