{"id":1156,"date":"2013-01-15T16:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2013-01-15T16:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:45:28","slug":"the-science-of-why-comment-trolls-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The upshot of this research? This is not your father&#8217;s media environment any longer. In the golden oldie days of media, newspaper articles were consumed in the context of\u2026other newspaper articles. But now, adds Scheufele, it&#8217;s like &#8220;reading the news article in the middle of the town square, with people screaming in my ear what I should believe about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, we all retain the option of not reading the comments. Which, in light of the latest research, is looking smarter than ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/01\/you-idiot-course-trolls-comments-make-you-believe-science-less\">The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upshot of this research? This is not your father&#8217;s media environment any longer. In the golden oldie days of media, newspaper articles were consumed in the context of\u2026other newspaper articles. But now, adds Scheufele, it&#8217;s like &#8220;reading the news &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}