This paper introduces SIFU, a system that recruits in real time native speakers as online volunteer tutors to help answer questions from Chinese language learners in reading news articles. SIFU integrates the strengths of two effective online language learning methods: reading online news and communicating with online native speakers. SIFU recruits volunteers from an online social network rathe...

The traditional media have moved at enormous speeds to present news and information online and have certainly changed the way information is presented to the reader. News and information on the Web is not up-to-date but up-to-theminute. Readers are able to access news stories that have not been published on the printed page or aired on television or radio, yet they are on the Web. Geography is ...

This paper explores the news trustworthiness and media credibility of The Economist’s news report on 9 July 2009, and the communicative roles of 846 readers’ responses. Theoretically guided by news translation and cultural resistance and the online public sphere, we applied online field observation and discourse analysis and achieved two main findings: First, although the news report covered th...

The web user is exposed to a vast amount of information services available from different sources. Online news are offered combined with additional relevant information, or service attributes such as a picture, a small text, user’s recommendation etc. We previously investigated the web user’s choice of online news focusing on the tradeoffs between reputation and other service attributes, which ...

This thesis attempted to investigate how the Internet had changed the reporting of medical news. Since the late 20th century, there have been growing concerns about emerging global health issues. Consequently, the media have an important role to play to better serve the needs of people seeking medical news and information. My presumption was that the Internet held the key for news organizations...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of online temporal language model adaptation when applied to a Thai broadcast news transcription task. Our adaptation scheme works as follow: first an initial language model is trained with broadcast news transcription available during the development period. Then the language model is adapted over time with more recent broadcast news transcription and ...

The online music and news markets have changed significantly and fundamentally over the past few years, as more and more new players – many of them originally from other sectors – enter the market space of the original media companies. While online news venues have been available for quite some time, the major tragedies and news events of the past few years have highlighted their ability to pro...

The purpose of this study is to examine whether affect-laden online materials, such as news stories and ads, can induce mood. In particular, this study examines whether viewing a positive online ad or reading a positive online story can induce a positive affect similar to other established mood inductions such as receipt of a surprise gift. Based on the results of previous “offline” studies we ...