With the growth in sociality and interaction around touching national and international topics, news sites are increasingly becoming places for communities to discuss and address issues spurred by news articles. Proponents of cyberspace promise that online discourse will increase political participation and pave the road for a democratic utopia (Papacharissi, 2004). Comment writers, according t...

Dean Fulgoni, Jordan Carpenter, Lyle Ungar, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro Computer and Information Science, 3330 Walnut St.,Philadelphia, PA 19104 Positive Psychology Center, 3701 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 University of Pennsylvania [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract News sources frame issues in different ways in order to appeal...

This study investigates the role of the news media in the economic voting process during the 1998 German Bundestag Election, by exploring how exposure to economic news in the mass media affects economic evaluations. The empirical results are based on a content analysis of a range of German news media outlets and on survey data from a two-wave panel survey. News media outlets differed noticeably...

To examine the nature of news content in online journalism, this study explores how online media define newsworthiness in covering news events. We examine the effect of organizations on the news concept with two types of online news sites portal news sites and the sties of traditional newspapers. The study used seven newsworthiness indicators as predictors of news content: statistical deviance,...