Increasing cross-partisan exposure and discussion[edit]
Stroud, N. J., Muddiman, A., & Scacco, J. M. (2017). Like, recommend, or respect? Altering political behavior in news comment sections. New Media & Society, 19(11), 1727–1743. (Nutshell: "Respect" and "recommend" buttons used less uniformly partisan.)
Han, S. H., Brazeal, L. M., & Pennington, N. (2018). Is civility contagious? Examining the impact of modeling in online political discussions. Social Media+ Society, 4(3). (Experiment that models civility in comments sections. Finds strong effects for modeling civility for keeping comments relevant and also increasing perspectives.)
Mitozo, I. (2019). Context Matters! Looking Beyond Platform Structure to Understand Citizen Deliberation on Brazil’s Portal e‐Democracia. Policy and Internet, 11(3), 370–390. (Nutshell: Looks at quality of debate across different fora that use same platform and finds variety across contexts.)
Park, Deokgun, Simranjit Sachar, Nicholas Diakopoulos, and Niklas Elmqvist. "Supporting comment moderators in identifying high quality online news comments." In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1114-1125. 2016. (Tool to identify and promote high quality comments.)
