‘Friends call me racist’: Experiences of repercussions from writing comments on newspaper websites

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An Interactive Multidimensional Ranking Web Tool.

This chapter presents examples of U-Multirank results, demonstrating the user-driven approach and showing that U-Multirank introduces a second level of interactive ranking beyond the selection of indicators: the selection of a sample of institutions to be compared in focused rankings. U-Multirank has a much broader scope than existing rankings and intends to include a wider variety of institutional profiles. The authors argue that it does not make much sense to compare institutions across diverse institutional profiles and that U-Multirank offers a tool to identify and select institutions that are truly comparable in terms of their institutional profiles

The double edged sword of deliberation

The dataset contains variables that were used to describe the relationship between exposure to factual versus non-factual user comments on participation intentions on participation intentions through social comparison with other commenters as well as perceived and actual knowledge. To investigate the relationship, an online survey was conducted with 368 participants. Thus, with the dataset, we want to share the values for 368 participants for the variables experimental manipulation (exposure to comments with a high or low level of facts), participation intentions, social comparison with other commenters, perceived knowledge and actual knowledge