Choosing and Reading Online News: How Available Choice Affects Cognitive Processing

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...

Comparison of cognitive processing speed, problem solving / planning and behavioral / emotional organization in students with learning disabilities with reading characteristics and normal in Tabriz

The purpose of this study was to compare the cognitive processing speed, problem solving / planning, and behavioral/emotional organization in students with reading disorder with normal students. The method of this study was causal-comparative research. The statistical population of the study included all primary school pupils in Tabriz. The research sample consisted of 30 male students with rea...

Survey on News Recommendation

Recommender Systems have evolved as an answer to information overload problem prevalent with online users, looking for relevant information out of a huge premise of content available online. Such systems are used to provide recommendations to the users guiding them towards items that match their interest areas and choice. News Recommendation is a specific research area under recommender systems...

When Words Collide Online: How Writing Style and Video Intensity Affect Cognitive Processing of Online News

How do framing strategies influence the user's choice of content on the Web?

The web user is exposed to a vast amount of information services available from different sources. Online news are offered combined with additional relevant information, or service attributes such as a picture, a small text, user’s recommendation etc. We previously investigated the web user’s choice of online news focusing on the tradeoffs between reputation and other service attributes, which ...