1st Edition
Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Chapter 1 – Bystanders
Chapter 2 – A Story Is a Promise of a Conversation
Chapter 3 – Discourse Amid Discord
Chapter 4 – What's Civility Got to Do with It?
Chapter 5 – Contradictions of Anonymity
Chapter 6 – Debugging Digital Discourse
Biography
Marie K. Shanahan is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut. Her teaching and academic research focus on the intersection of journalism and interactive communication technology. She has been a journalist, online news producer and professional writer for more than 20 years. Her interest in the possibilities of interactive media led her away from an early career as print reporter at The Hartford Courant to the digital side of news, where she spent 13 years producing online news and dealing with comments on the web. Her academic work has been published by The Poynter Institute, Columbia Journalism Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsweek, Salon and The Conversation.
