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Authors: FLAVIA ŢĂRAN.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeph.2017.1.04
Published Online: 2017-06-20
Published Print: 2017-06-30
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With over 57k people following the posts and the conversations, the r/Romania subreddit becomes a relevant online venue for anything Romania, from politics and the fight against corruption to funny images and satire. This research is focused on how the people of Roddit interact and behave, in order to identify if this is a by the book online community. A second point of interest is the content aggregated on r/Romania, and by whom, narrowing the conversation to theories of agenda-setting and digital gatekeeping. The constant debate on r/Romania is jumpstarted by the submission of links and from the forum-like discussions, rendering it mandatory to analyze the content. In doing so, we collected all the posts ever submitted to r/Romania, since its creation in the fall of 2009. Furthermore, in order to have a closer look at the conversation angle, we collected 115k comments from the first five months of this year. The data was gathered by interrogating Reddit’s API (Application programming interface). The methodology used combines quantitative large-scale analysis and small sample case studies.
Keywords: Reddit, Roddit, r/Romania, virtual communities, agenda setting.
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