The growing amount of online news posted on the WWW demands new algorithms that support topic detection, search, and navigation of news documents. This work presents an algorithm for topic detection that considers the temporal evolution of news and the structure of web documents. Then, it uses the results of the topic detection algorithm for searching and navigating in an online news source. An...

Our study investigates the role of infrastructures in shaping online news usage by contrasting use patterns of two social groups—millennials and boomers—that are specifically located in news infrastructures. Typically based on self-reported data, popular press and academics tend to highlight the generational gap in news usage and link it to divergence in values and preferences of the two age co...

This exploratory study investigates social network sites (SNS) users’ time allocation behavior among various traditional and new media. Specifically, it examines the difference in degree of dependency on SNS between the young generation and the general population as a new form of news medium based on the media system dependency (MSD) and the microeconomic consumption (MEC) theories. The researc...

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This study explores the predictive power of lifestyle orientations, reliance on traditional news media, attributes of online news, traditional mass media use, and demographics on online news adoption and likelihood to adopt. Data were gathered using a snowballing method from 453 information workers and university students, of which 52% were frequent online newsreaders and 48% non-users. Explora...

The advent of Web 2.0 and modern internet technologies was associated with a revolution in online contents especially those that are news-oriented. The proliferation of an array of online mediums for news dissemination and aggregation led to the availability of a constant flow of news contents to endusers. Moreover, the advent of Social Media (SM) platforms meant that the Web was transformed to...

Online news editors ask themselves the same question many times: what is missing in this news article to go online? This is not an easy question to be answered by computational linguistic methods. In this work, we address this important question and characterise the constituents of news article editorial quality. More specifically, we identify 14 aspects related to the content of news articles....