What Memes Say about the News Cycle? CS322 Final Project Report
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In this project we investigate different properties of the news cycle. We address the correlation between news topic and the media coverage distribution. We present a simple method for finding pioneer bloggers in the blog space. Results of our work show that pioneers mostly write about time-sensitive topics such as: politics and finance. We also study differences and similarities between news agencies in their attitude towards news. We show that they share same properties at large-scale, but they have many structural differences. Although, we believe more detailed data will help us in recognizing structural similarities in a better way.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009