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Discourse About the 2007 Scottish Elections on a National Newspaper Web Site

University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom University of Iowa, USA, jane-singer{at}uiowa.edu

In May 2007, Scots voted into office a party and a political leader publicly committed to holding a referendum on independence from Great Britain within four years. This study analyzes nearly forty-eight hundred comments appended to stories on the scotsman.com Web site, offering one of the first detailed looks at user-generated content on a newspaper-affiliated Web site in the context of a national election. It explores the evolving nature of online political community and the ways in which newspapers are accommodating a networked environment in their political coverage, addressing issues of citizen and journalistic engagement within a communal space.

Key Words: election campaign • media audiences • nationalism • newspapers • public sphere • Web site

This version was published on October 1, 2009

The International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 14, No. 4, 477-496 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1940161209336659


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