AI RESEARCH

Article and Comment Frames Shape the Quality of Online Comments

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2603.27889v1 Announce Type: new Framing theory posits that how information is presented shapes audience responses, but computational work has largely ignored audience reactions. While recent work showed that article framing systematically shapes the content of reader responses, this paper asks: Does framing also affect response quality? Analyzing 1M comments across 2.7K news articles, we operationalize quality as comment health (constructive, good-faith contributions