Paying for Online News

Paying for News: Opportunities for a New Business Model through Personalized News Aggregators (PNAs)

News consumption has been evolving from offline newspapers to online news. However, while offline newspapers sales are decreasing, online news business models have never been entrenched. Meanwhile, the new technology of social recommender systems enable automated news aggregation. Personalized news aggregators (PNAs) rely on this technology, and provide personalized news in visually appealing w...

Pay for Online News

People have paid for print newspapers for ages and they don't seem to mind. So what is so different about online news? This paper develops an individual-level choice model for analyzing the probability of an individual choosing one of these charging service for online news: video on demand, news in depth, and news in print whereas no-charge is a status-quo. Among the charging service, customiza...

Paying Tuition and Other Fees Online

Measuring Online News Participation

Social plugins for sharing news through Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly salient features on news sites. Together with the user comment feature, social plugins are the most common way for users to contribute. The wide use of multiple features has opened new areas to comprehensively study users’ participatory practices. However, how do these opportunities to participate vary between...

Ideology and Online News

News consumption is moving online. If this move fundamentally changes how news is produced and consumed it will have important ramifications for politics. In this chapter we formulate a model of the supply and demand of news online that is motivated by descriptive features of online news consumption. We estimate the demand model using a combination of microdata and aggregate moments from a pane...