Wayne: Here's what I used when citing comments, based on AAA style guides. If you are citing the entirety of the page on reddit, it goes like this: Abcess2 2013 Electronic Arts Suffers $45 Million Loss. reddit.com (aggregator site), February 1, 2:07 pm EST, http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/17pftd/electronic_arts_suffers_4..., accessed January 1. If you are citing a comment made on that page, and not referencing the whole page, try this: AliasUndercover 2013 /Comment on/ Electronic Arts Suffers $45 Million Loss. reddit.com (aggregator site), February 1, 2:07 pm EST, http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/17pftd /electronic_arts_suffers_45_million_loss/, accessed January 1. Reddit is tough since they don't tell you the time of the post, only how long ago it was, so you have to best guess it. Denice On 2/1/2013 6:00 PM, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:
Message: 11 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 20:19:24 +0000 From: "Rysavy, Wayne Erik"<wrysavy@email.unc.edu> To:"air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Question about citing specific Reddit pages Message-ID: <9429E15C908DA54D951ECCC3478D381C3BE28B22@ITS-MSXMBS3F.ad.unc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could clarify the best way to cite specific Reddit comment pages related to area-specific content. I typically cite in APA, but since Redditors create comment pages in sharing images, links, and/or stories and then form a subsequent comment page based around their submissions, I'm not exactly sure how to reference the material. I want to reference the comment page created by a Redditor, in particular. For example, if I want to cite this comment page (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/17pftd/electronic_arts_suffers_4...), how would I do that?
I am relatively new to AoIR, so I haven't seen any discussion about this and would appreciate any feedback you can provide. I'm using certain discussions in comment pages on Reddit within a paper I am working on and have not cited from this site before. Again, thank you, any help is appreciated.
Best,
Wayne Erik Rysavy, M.A. Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow Department of Communication Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 115 Bingham, CB#3285 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 wrysavy@email.unc.edu
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