Online comments under discussion at the Permanent Seminar of Media Literacy

João Gonçalves was the guest of the first Permanent Seminar of Media Literacy (2018 edition). The PhD in communication studies and researcher at CECS presented the work “Comments from readers about the media: a comparative study”, done in collaboration with Ivan Lacasa, Sara Pereira and Marisa Torres da Silva. João Gonçalves highlighted the characteristics of online news commentators of a Portuguese newspaper: they write negative reviews and pay more attention to photographs than their counterparts of Spanish, English and American sites.