Analyzing Bias of Comments on Political News Articles to Facilitate Transparent Online Communities

Joonho Gwon, Minji Kwon, Hyunggu Jung

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Abstract

Comments on the news articles can affect people's perceptions and behaviors. However, little is known about how people determine the degree of bias (DoB) of comments on political news articles. To address such bias issues, current platforms of news articles offer criteria to sort multiple comments on the news articles. However, little is known about whether the DoB of comments is reduced when publishers offer various criteria for sorting comments. We conducted surveys to identify how people determine DoB of comments on the news article, and how bias varies depending on how comments are sorted. The findings of this study revealed that there was a significant difference among the DoB by comments. Future work remains to develop an algorithm generating unbiased comments by using existing comments on political news articles and their DoB.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAsianCHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures, Part of CHI 2020
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages49-52
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450387682
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Apr 2020
Event2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures, AsianCHI 2020 - Part of CHI 2020 - Honolulu, Virtual, United States
Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → …

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures, AsianCHI 2020 - Part of CHI 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu, Virtual
Period25/04/20 → …

Keywords

  • Bias
  • Comments
  • Degree of bias
  • Online communities
  • Online news
  • Political news
  • Sorting criteria
  • Top comments

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