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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"News content"”.
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Readers’ Perceptions of Newsworthiness and Bias as Factors in Participation with Digital News Content
<p>Audience participation with digital news content has become a central feature of news consumption. These participatory news behaviors – commenting on, sharing, and “liking” news stories – have implications for both newsreaders and producers of news. This dissertation tests a structural model of …
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Birthers, Hand Signals, and Spirit Cooking: The Impact of Political Fake News Content on Facebook Engagement during the 2016 Presidential Election
… and media coverage was shaped by so called "fake news" – news articles which were intentionally false, and designed to influence opinion and policy. Although fake news itself is not a new concept, the way in which it was covered, and the was it was spread on social media platforms, was. Given …
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Collaborative news networks : distributed editing, collective action, and the construction of online news on Slashdot.org
… new possibilities for public participation with news content, forcing news scholars and makers alike to confront a number of questions about what the nature, role and function of news, journalists, and audiences are in a networked society. If news gathering, reporting, and circulation had existed …
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Making news in 140 characters: how the new media environment is changing our examination of audiences, journalists, and content
… qualitative and quantitative research methods (content analysis, social network analysis, and in-depth interviews) in an examination of Twitter, a social media platform popular among journalists, this project provides insight into how changes in media routines are affecting news content.
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Mass media and alternative coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
The present study examines the issue of news content and coverage of an environmental disaster in the mass and the alternative media. With the use of content analysis, 132 articles on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill were selected and analyzed in four alternative magazines and one American newspaper. It …
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FARMING OUT THE NEWS: AN ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURE COVERAGE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NEWSPAPERS USING THE CENTER - PERIPHERY MODEL
… agriculture coverage in Southern Illinois newspapers. Agriculture news is evaluated to determine what topics are covered and what perspective is being advanced. Agriculture coverage in 30 newspapers was compared to general news content. In-depth interviews were conducted with editors of …
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Iran in U.S. Corporate and Regional Media: A Content Analysis of The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rooz Online, Al Jazeera and Iran Review
… Much of this conflict has played out in news media, which have a vital role to provide information, analysis and opportunities for dialogue as part of democratic life. When news media fail to fulfill these obligations the consequences can be immense as we witnessed, for example, during …
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General Parenting Philosophy and Parental News Mediation: Designing a Qualitative Interview Process
… to study how children interact with the news media and how their parents control these interactions. As the media landscape evolves and children's access to news media becomes greater, the effects on children's media literacy and development are called into question. The goal of this …
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WorldLens: exploring world events through media
… approach by crawling a broad swath of content sources, and map the resulting data into an interactive visualization. WorldLens aims to obviate the need for an a priori search term, and instead focuses on facilitating informative discovery across news content from articles, web video, …
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Local Television News in a Changing Media Environment
The rapid decline in the number of US news outlets, especially at the local level, has alarmed scholars because democratic societies depend on the media to provide citizens with information. Recent social science research suggests local television news helps with this information provision task; …
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Digital news and people with disabilities : where are we headed?
… excluded from receiving or interpreting the news. U.S. law has changed requirements for Internet content and will lead to drastic changes in how news is conveyed online. Mainstream media is making headway toward communicating to the culture and abilities of people with disabilities, but …
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Social Networking Sites as Intermediaries of Authoritarian State Propaganda: How Facebook and VK Disseminated Predominantly Kremlin-Friendly Political Content Before and During Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
… global reach of Russia’s state-aligned domestic news content, specifically on US- and Russia-based social networking sites that significantly differ in the level of the Kremlin’s control over information flows, and how the activities of novel Russian disinformation production organizations …
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Redefining journalism : convergence in the public sphere
… on incorporating everyday citizens into the news production process: the use of citizen bloggers to supplement CBC’s coverage of the G20 summit in Toronto shows how diversifying storytelling improves the overall quality of news content; the mandate of Connect with Mark Kelly to democratize …
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Impact of web metrics on news decisions
Many news organizations are trying to maximize their online audience in an attempt to bring greater exposure to their work and attract advertising. Grounded in Resource Dependency Theory and System of Professions theory, this comparative case study of two divergent news organizations sought to …
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A new approach to studying earnings announcement timing : why do firms change earnings announcement dates?
… earnings- and market-based proxies for the news content of firms' announcements. I show firms whose earnings announcements are moved forward due to calendar rotations receive greater media coverage of earnings news, experience less preemption of earnings news, and display larger earnings …
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ALGORITHMIC SOLUTIONS TO COMBAT ONLINE FAKE NEWS
… on the Web has fostered the rise of ``fake news.'' Because of its detrimental effect on democracy, global economies, and public health, effectively combating online fake news has become an essential and urgent task.<p>This dissertation starts with making typological, theoretical, and …
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Online news commenting platforms as space for democratic deliberation : a study of selected Nigerian online news websites
News commenting has become part of the features of online news sites in Nigeria, providing space for readers to express their views on news content and to engage with other readers in discussion. Over time, these commenting sections have become a space for the exchange of acerbic and, beyond that, …
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Gatekeeping Analysis of The Asian Magazine: A Case Study
… Previous studies heavily focus on traditional news media and explore the influence of internal and external forces on story selection. Very few studies, however, look at gatekeeping in new areas of technology. This case study extends this literature into social media. It looks at how editors at …
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Finnish media discourses on Calais, France 2016
… and refugees in Calais, France in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The topic is related to wider socio-political events that took place especially during the years of 2015 and 2016, when more refugees arrived in Europe than usual especially due to unrest in countries outside of Europe. …
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Government controls of American correspondents in China
… study examined the controls placed on American news correspondents by the Chinese government during an unprecedented period of transition in China's history. Correspondents were interviewed in Beijing to identify the controls they face; how they handle those controls and the effects those …
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