Private Self-Awareness and Aggression in Computer-Mediated Communication: Abusive User Comments on Online News Articles

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (13) ◽  
pp. 1160-1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seohee Sohn ◽  
Ho Chung Chung ◽  
Namkee Park
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Online News ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Computer Mediated

Cybercultural Transgressions in Comments by Iranian Instagram Users

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-186
Author(s):  
Shalaleh Meraji Oskuie ◽  
Kamran Mohamadkhani (corresponding author) ◽  
Ali Delavar ◽  
Ali Akbar Farhangi
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Mental Problems ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Effective Use

Abstract The ease of communication and anonymity that computer-mediated communication provides has created fertile ground for transgressive (socially non-normative) online behaviours. The purpose of the current research is to explore the types of transgressive comments on Iranian celebrities’ Instagram pages. Within a qualitative descriptive approach, the current research employs Braun and Clarke’s ‘thematic analysis’ to analyze transgressive user comments. Using a judgmental (purposive) non-probability sampling technique, we selected posts from 22 Iranian celebrities’ Instagram pages. Afterwards, we analyzed 53,066 comments in these posts and extracted four dominant transgressive themes: ‘unwanted advertisement,’ ‘partner seeking,’ ‘attention seeking,’ and ‘emotional release’; we then extracted their sub-themes. Transgressive behaviours disrupt the communicative experience on social networks, endanger users’ security and safety, and can lead to mental problems and even offline harassment and violence. Recognizing these behaviours and their patterns can contribute to more effective use of social control means.

Divergent News Media in Computer Mediated News Communication

2011 ◽  
pp. 492-507
Author(s):  
Michaël Opgenhaffen
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
News Media ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Homogeneous Medium ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Online News ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Total Process

The focus of computer mediated communication research has been lying on the dialogical aspect of Internet communication while the presentation and consumption of online news have been understudied. In this chapter, we make a strong plead to not studying the Internet as one, homogeneous medium, but instead as a meta-medium that carries various divergent news media with specific formal and structural features. These features are important as they influence the information-processing that encompasses the computer mediated news consumption and are, as we suggest, essential when doing communication research. Both the results of a content analysis of the online coverage of the 2006 elections in Flanders, Belgium, and the literature overview of the black-box of information-processing of online news make strong appeal to computer mediated communication scholars to invest in studies towards the form and structure of online news media in order to better understand the total process of computer mediated news communication.

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