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   Trolls' Online Comments Skew Perception of Science   
   Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff WriterDate: 19 February 2013 Time:   
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   The rude comments that appear in online science news stories can   
   actively shape perceptions of the science.   
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   When people read a science news story online, chances are they'll find   
   a string of comments below, and the comments aren't always civil. But   
   these comments actually influence people's perception of the science,   
   a new study suggests.   
      
   The Internet provides a forum for discussing issues in a way that   
   traditional media did not. "You used to use media by yourself. Now,   
   it's almost like reading the newspaper in middle of a busy street with   
   people yelling in your ear what you should and shouldn’t believe,"   
   study co-author Dietram Scheufele, a communication scholar at the   
   University of Wisconsin-Madison, told LiveScience.   
      
      
      
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   http://www.livescience.com/27239-online-comments-skew-science-perception.html   
      
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