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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"news websites"”.
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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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Critical language analysis of Palestinian and Israeli online newspapers and news websites during the 2014 Gaza War
… of three Israeli and three Palestinian online newspapers and news websites during the 2014 Gaza war. The study analyses a limited number of news articles from newspapers and news websites that are indicative of the media landscape on each side. The choice of these outlets is intended to present …
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Sense of community, political participation, and civic engagement: An examination of the relationships between local daily newspapers, news websites, and their communities
Newspapers have been shown to have positive correlations with their readers, sense of community, political participation, and civic engagement. Using McMillan and Chavis, Sense of Community Theory and its accompanying SCI-2 as well as questions on demographics and media use, political …
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The Presence and Use of Interactive Features on Kurdish News Websites in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. A case study of interactivity of news Kurdish websites of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region
… features in the constructed presentation of news websites, few news websites in the Iraqi Kurdistan region are maximizing such features. Also, this thesis argues that despite the lack of a good infrastructure in the field of communication technology and the Internet in the Iraqi Kurdistan …
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Broken News: Market Segmentation and Selective Exposure in Online News
… the World Wide Web as their primary source for news and information instead of legacy media outlets such as printed newspapers and magazines and broadcast news. As more and more people rely on the Internet as a primary source for news, it is important to analyze the characteristics and content …
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Making diffusion work for you: Classification sans text, finding culprits and filling missing values
… a history of interactions between blogs and news websites, can we predict blogs posts/news websites that are not in the sample but talk about the "the state of the economy" in 2008? These questions have two things in common: a network (social networks or human contact networks) and a virus …
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Recruitment of Generation Y into clinical trials
… The possible recruitment methods included newspaper advertising, news websites, television (TV) advertising, radio advertising, and social media. Of social media, the options were LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, or other (if none of the above). Of the 2,000 university …
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Assessing determinants of customer loyalty in an online news service context
News consumption has become a central aspect of everyday life in modern societies and in recent years online news websites have become an increasingly popular source. This thesis examines online news consumption and customer loyalty to online news websites. Using the underlying theoretical …
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The distinctive nature of making news online: A study of news production at latimes.com and salon.com
… came together to create content for their websites over a six month period. It vividly unveils the process of newsmaking by journalists working for organisations whose output is the world wide web. It uses mixed method case studies of two US-based news websites, latimes.com and salon.com, …
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Race and stereotypes in new media: an examination of how Internet news frames persons of color
The portrayal of race in news media has received much attention over the past few decades by scholars. Despite this, no unifying theoretical approach for analysis has been developed or employed. Further, little attention to Internet news has been paid. This dissertation was developed and carried …
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Paying for online news: what provides value and for whom?
… significantly changed the revenue model for news organizations. Most newspapers elected to offer free websites when they first went online in the 1990s, but as print subscriptions and ad revenues declined, newspapers have struggled to find paying customers online. More news sites have adopted …
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Hyperpartisanship in Web Searched Articles
News consumption is primarily done through online news media outlets and social media. There has been a recent rise in both fake news generation, and consumption. Fake news refers to articles that deliberately contain false information to influence readers. Substantial dissemination of …
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Social news web-sites with democratic interfaces : analysis of one month’s voting from Reddit.com.
… of the activity taking place on “Social News” websites which use quantitative democratic interfaces. The data analysed were 3,446,522 votes from one such site (Reddit.com) for a single month. Data were analysed in terms of Users, Links, and Sub-Reddits. Exploratory analyses revealed that …
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Algorithms vs. Human Nature: A Tale of Selective Exposure
<p>The public’s turn towards news websites and social media for news consumption has sparked anxiety over echo chambers, avoidance of opinion-challenging content, and potentially fragmentation and polarization among sociopolitical groups. Algorithms have specifically been blamed for increasing the …
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Framing the mass shooter James Eagan Holmes: serious mental illness and gun violence
… question guiding the study asked how online news stories about the Aurora Theater Shooting frame serious mental illness and mass shootings. A content analysis was conducted on four news websites, two local publications and two national publications. This was designed to detect geographical …
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Sport and New Media: A Profile of Internet Sport Journalists in Australia
… coverage, allowing fans to access the latest news about their favourite team, sport or event. To date, Internet sport journalists, the content creators of sporting news websites, have received little attention in academic research. Accordingly, the aim of this research project was to construct …
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Race, Class, Risk and Trust: Risk Communication in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… be negatively correlated with trust in local TV news, non-news websites, and social media sites. Tests of correlation were also run on frequency of media use and trust in sources of risk messages.</p>
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The return of the Serbian other: Interpretative repertoires of nationalism and identity politics in online news discourses on Serbia's integration in the European union
… integration into the EU on Serbian online news websites. Informed by the theoretical and methodological framework of discursive psychology, this research identified interpretative repertoires activated and constructed in dialogic interaction through news reports and readers' online …
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The Use of New Media by the UK's Palestinian Diaspora
… that impede media outlets from distributing news that would answer demands for consistency, accuracy and, most importantly, for real time updates. As the findings show, the revolution in new technology has answered the Palestinians’ demands for reception of news from home. The availability of …
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