The focus of computer mediated communication research has been lying on the dialogical aspect of Internet communication while the presentation and consumption of online news have been understudied. In this chapter, we make a strong plead to not studying the Internet as one, homogeneous medium, but instead as a meta-medium that carries various divergent news media with specific formal and struct...

The proliferation of misleading information in everyday access media outlets such as social media feeds, news blogs, and online newspapers have made it challenging to identify trustworthy news sources, thus increasing the need for computational tools able to provide insights into the reliability of online content. In this paper, we focus on the automatic identification of fake content in online...

This study explores differences in volume of coverage and thematic content between US print news and online media coverage for an emerging technology – nanotechnology. We found that while American print news media and Google News coverage of this emerging technology has peaked and started to decline, Google Blog Search coverage of nanotechnology is still growing. Additionally, our data show dis...

Let’s consider some examples. The “filter bubble” arises when algorithmic systems, such as Google search or the Facebook news feed, decide what information to show a user based on her past pattern of searches and clicks. The worry is that users will be fed reinforcing viewpoints and eventually be isolated in their own bubble. At the level of demographics, the seemingly fair principle of treatin...

Social plugins for sharing news through Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly salient features on news sites. Together with the user comment feature, social plugins are the most common way for users to contribute. The wide use of multiple features has opened new areas to comprehensively study users’ participatory practices. However, how do these opportunities to participate vary between...

News consumption is moving online. If this move fundamentally changes how news is produced and consumed it will have important ramifications for politics. In this chapter we formulate a model of the supply and demand of news online that is motivated by descriptive features of online news consumption. We estimate the demand model using a combination of microdata and aggregate moments from a pane...

The development of social media applications, such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter, has offered new participatory opportunities for everyday media users. This article contributes to research by looking into one specific aspect of the increasingly more participatory media ecology – the news comment feature. Drawing on a quantitative content analysis of 1100 news pieces, as well as spaces for user...

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...

In a marked departure from traditional offline media, where all subscribers of a particular news media source (e.g., New York Times) used to get the same news stories through printed newspapers, online news media presents multiple options for the readers to consume news. For example, the subscribers of a media source can get news directly from the news website, or from what their peers share ov...

Internet is an efficient tool that provides unlimited information sources for the humans. This tool also creates a platform for the internet users to access information on the news easily in a real time manner by collecting the online news agencies in a one place. However, the readers usually face with difficulties to find a reliable source of information, especially on the conflicting news bec...