What prompts users to click and comment: A longitudinal study of online news

This study examined the relationship between two mechanisms of online participation – clicking and commenting – as well as the characteristics of heavily clicked versus highly commented-upon news items. Based on 15,431 items from a popular Israeli website, correlations between clicking and commentin...

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Published in:Journalism (London, England) England), 2015-02, Vol.16 (2), p.198-217
Main Authors: Tenenboim, Ori, Cohen, Akiba A
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