Gardiner, Becky; Mansfield, Mahana; Anderson, Ian; Ulmanu, Monica; Louter, Daan and Holder, Josh. 2016. The dark side of Guardian comments. The Guardian (print and online), [Article]

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Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006. Looking at patterns of commenting behaviour we discovered that articles written by women and people of colour attracted higher levels of abusive and / or disruptive comments "below the line". Of the 10 Opinion writers who received the most abuse / disruptive behaviour, eight were women (four white, four non-white) and two were black men.

Item Type:	Article
Related URLs:	https://www.theguardian.com/technology/s...
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Media, Communications and Cultural Studies > Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre
Dates:	Date Event 12 April 2016 Published
Item ID:	18476
Date Deposited:	02 Jun 2016 14:41
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2019 11:59
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18476

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