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Disproportionate Voices: Participation Inequality and Hostile Engagement in News Comments
Sangbeom Kim, Seonhye Noh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16040 https://

Disproportionate Voices: Participation Inequality and Hostile Engagement in News Comments
Digital platforms were expected to foster broad participation in public discourse, yet online engagement remains highly unequal and underexplored. This study examines the digital participation divide and its link to hostile engagement in news comment sections. Analyzing 260 million comments from 6.2 million users over 13 years on Naver News, South Korea's largest news aggregation platform, we quantify participation inequality using the Gini and Palma indexes and estimate hostility levels with a…