This paper critically examines 48 digital news updates to six New York Times online articles collected through 181 captures via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine (WBM), a web scraping tool, pertaining federal military and local police responses Portland protests published in headlines, sources, quotes, hyperlinks, order of information presented, articles’ main thrusts meaning. Through this...

Most models of information diffusion online rely on the assumption that pieces spread independently from each other. However, several works pointed out necessity investigating role interactions in real-world processes, and highlighted possible difficulties doing so: are sparse brief. As an answer, recent advances developed to account for underlying publication dynamics. In this article, we prop...

Cutting the message into smaller portions is a common practice in the media. Typically such messages consist of a headline followed by a story elaboration. In a series of studies Dolinski and Kofta (2001) have shown that such a break in the message increases the effect of the information provided in the headline over that of a story which actually contained information inconsistent with that he...

We propose a model in which industry conditions influence the relative advantages of new and established firms as innovators. Using a unique data set of commercialization attempts of inventions simultaneously at risk of commercialization by both new and established firms, we find that industry characteristics including the number of firms in the industry, the size of the market, the availabilit...

This paper explores two linguistically motivated restrictions on the set of words used for topic tracking on newspaper articles: named entities and headline words. We assume that named entities is one of the linguistic features for topic tracking, since both topic and event are related to a specific place and time in a story. The basic idea to use headline words for the tracking task is that he...

Field of application/theoretical foundation: Analyses using the constructs cause/antecedents/history in news content are theoretically related to performance and democratic function media (McQuail, 1992). This construct is linked professional standards normative assumption that should provide audience with background information on current events issues (Westerstahl, 1983). For example, can be ...

In 1949, Linus Pauling and his collaborators published a study in the journal Science entitled "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease." In this now classic study, they showed that hemoglobin from patients suffering from sickle cell anemia has a different electrical charge than hemoglobin from healthy individuals. This result demonstrated for the first time that an abnormal protein could be ca...

We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam’s ILPS group in the blog track at TREC 2009. We focus on the top stories identification task, and take an approach that does not require the headlines of top stories to be known beforehand. We explore the feasibility of a so-called blogs to news approach: given a date and a set of blog posts, identify the main topics for that date. Th...

From the beginnings of the World Wide Web, Web site administrators have used dynamically generated HTML pages to provide up-to-date information, e.g., online news, stock quotes, etc. Due to the high resource consumption of dynamic page generation approaches, many sites have switched over to periodical updates of frequently visited pages, e.g., a headline index of an electronic newspaper. Howeve...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is typically categorized as being mild, moderate, or severe. Over the years much of the research focus has been geared toward moderate and severe TBI as these injuries are seen most often in the clinical setting. In contrast, mild TBI is more difficult to diagnose and there is inconsistency within the literature on how exactly mild TBI should be diagnosed. Even more...