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Online commenting and online comment forums are a contested issue. The term forum as such evokes the idea of the forum or agora as a common place for assembly and egalitarian discourse in a civic community. But the comment sections of mainstream news media, blogs and social networking sites have become notorious for phenomena like hate speech and flame wars rather than civil discussion.
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Mollen, A. (2020). Online commenting as civic communication. In: Digital Spaces of Civic Communication. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27515-0_1
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