Journalistic Homophily on Social Media

Social networks as journalistic paradigm . Spanish media on Facebook

Spain is one of the countries with higher use of social networks in the world. Among them, Facebook is emerging as one of the most significant internationally. If these phenomena are combined with the current transformation of journalism, it is not surprising that some Spanish cybermedia have approached this platform to develop new products for the Web. From this starting point, this article fo...

Are Social Media more Social than Media? Measuring Ideological Homophily and Segregation on Twitter∗

Social media represent a rapidly growing source of information for citizens around the world. In this paper, we measure the degree of ideological homophily and segregation on social media. In particular, we construct a network based upon links between politically-engaged users and find that the network exhibits previously documented homophily patterns in offline social networks. Likewise, the d...

Social Media in Journalistic Inquiry - Requirements for a Search System incorporating Journalistic Quality Criteria

Social media allow journalists to incorporate additional information into their journalistic inquiry. However, journalists often cannot be certain of the quality of information from social media. IS research has yet to sufficiently address this issue. Most notably, there is no information system that supports searching for social media content about a specific topic while considering journalist...

Friendship prediction and homophily in social media **PREPRINT***

LUCA MARIA AIELLO Department of Computer Science, University of Turin, Italy ALAIN BARRAT Centre de Physique Théorique (CNRS UMR 6207), Marseille, France Complex Networks and Systems Laboratory, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy ROSSANO SCHIFANELLA Department of Computer Science, University of Turin, Italy CIRO CATTUTO Complex Networks and Systems Laboratory, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy BENJAMIN MA...

Social and Journalistic Changes