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Digital media are constituted through both their underlying technology as expressed in their software interfaces as well as through the practices that people come to establish with regard to them. In order to understand how online commenting has developed, I will therefore propose a dialectical approach that investigates the interrelation of commenting interfaces and people’s commenting practices. Roger Silverstone described mediation in its social and technological dimensions as a dialectical process (Silverstone 2002: 762, also Couldry 2012: 5).
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Mollen, A. (2020). The socio-technical dialectics of online commenting. In: Digital Spaces of Civic Communication. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27515-0_2
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