Feminist news media researchers have long contended that masculine news values shape journalists' quotidian decisions about what is newsworthy. As a result, it is argued, topics and issues traditionally regarded as primarily of interest and relevance to women are routinely marginalised in the news, while men's views and voices are given privileged space. When women do show up in the news, it is...

SocialNews seeks to enhance the news results returned by online news services such as Google News or Bing News by leveraging social networking information to provide more relevant results to the user. For example, Facebook profiles contain a wealth of information about the user’s interests, hobbies, personal history, and friends. We describe a system that analyzes the content in a user’s social...

SocialNews seeks to enhance the news results returned by online news services such as Google News or Bing News by leveraging social networking information to provide more relevant results to the user. For example, Facebook profiles contain a wealth of information about the user’s interests, hobbies, personal history, and friends. We describe a system that analyzes the content in a user’s social...

Prior research has reported evidence of polarization in the consumption and distribution of political news in online social media. Methods to effectively measure slant of news articles at a large scale are lacking in prior literature. To fill this gap, we propose a method to measure slant of individual news articles by observing their sharing patterns on Twitter. Our method monitors tweets abou...

The adoption of mobile devices is pushing the Internet into a more personal and context aware space. A common challenge for online news services is to deliver contents that are interesting to read. In this paper, we describe the user interface design of the SmartMedia news recommender prototype. Through deep analysis of textual news contents it is able to deliver local, recent and personalized ...

Nowadays, the Internet is indispensable when it comes to information dissemination. People rely on the Internet to inform themselves on current news events, as well as to verify facts. We, as a community, are quickly approaching an 'electronic information age' where the majority of information will be distributed electronically and tools to preserve this information will become essential. While...

The news classification approach is the primary approach for the online news portals with the news data sourced from the various portals. The various types of data is received and accepted over the news classification portals. The lexicon analysis plays the key role in the categorization of the news automatically using the automatic news category recognition by analyzing the keyword data extrac...