This book addresses the socio-technical constitution of civic communication in increasingly digital democracies. Despite problematic phenomena like hate speech in online commenting, it argues that citizens' potential for resisting technological inscriptions in digital media remains a fundamental democratic right. While producers inscribe anticipations for how people should be discussing political issues into commenting interfaces, citizens still resist these technological inscriptions in their commenting practices. This dialectic interrelation between interfaces and practices highlights the inadequacy of purely technological solutions for undemocratic tendencies in digital media. Contents

• Online commenting as civic communication

• Socio-technical dialectics of online commenting

• Interrelation of interfaces and practices

• Interfaces, practices and interactions in online commentingTarget groups

• lecturers and students of media and communication studies, media sociology, science and technology studies and political science

• social media editors, journalists, political communicators, media and internet policy specialistsThe Author Anne Mollen is research assistant at the Department of Communication at the University of Münster and scientific coordinator at the Research Training Group "Trust and Communication in a Digitized World".

Autorentext
The AuthorAnne Mollen is research assistant at the Department of Communication at the University of Münster and scientific coordinator at the Research Training Group "Trust and Communication in a Digitized World".

Inhalt
ContentsOnline commenting as civic communication.- Socio-technical dialectics of online commenting.- Interrelation of interfaces and practices.- Interfaces, practices and interactions in online commenting.