Does Media Matter? Variation of VK and Facebook Deliberative Capacities (Evidence from Discussions on the Crimea Crisis)
Journal: Communications Media Design
Year: 2019

This paper considers political talk online in two similar social networks: Facebook and VK. Due to the proliferation of professionally produced entertainment content in VK, we suppose that users of this network produce more deliberative discussions, while Facebook users are more engaged in online activity. Selecting 23 news posts, which were simultaneously posted in both social networks, we collected 7676 comments. This study has two hypotheses: (1) Facebook users are more participative in onlin