Nyhetskommentering på Facebook : En studie om hur deliberativa kommentarerna är på nyhetssajternas facebooksidor

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study was to examine in which extent the comments about news in the comment fields, on Swedish news sites Facebook pages were deliberative. To fulfill this purpose we used a quantitative content analysis as a method to interpret the data that we collected about 2203 reader comments from three news sites Facebook pages. Jürgen Habermas theory about deliberative democracy together with theories about public space and Web 2.0 were the theories we based our study on. To determine that a comment was deliberative it had to contain an argument and be written with tolerance and respect. Our result showed that most comments lacked either one or both of these criteria’s and therefore weren’t deliberative. This study helps to show in which extent the comments about news on Facebook are deliberative.