News aggregators are widely used to read RSS feeds but they require the user to be in front of a screen. While moving, people usually do not have any display, or very small ones. Moreover, they need to perform actions to get access to the news: download a tool, choose to generate audio files from the news, and send them to e.g. an MP3 player. We propose in this paper a system that automatically...

News consumption has been evolving from offline newspapers to online news. However, while offline newspapers sales are decreasing, online news business models have never been entrenched. Meanwhile, the new technology of social recommender systems enable automated news aggregation. Personalized news aggregators (PNAs) rely on this technology, and provide personalized news in visually appealing w...

Online social media has recently irrupted as the last major venue for the propagation of news and cultural content, competing with traditional mass media and allowing citizens to access new sources of information. In this paper, we study collectively filtered news and popular content in Twitter, known as Trending Topics (TTs), to quantify the extent to which they show similar biases known for m...

websites have been considered as one of the most important means of communication among different stakeholders. regarding this fact, the news websites have been taken into account as one of the most important types of websites since they provide the users with significant information providing capabilities and they also play a major role in creating and disseminating knowledge in the society. t...

Background: Although the scientific literature has extensively discussed the impact of the media on people’s health-related behaviors, there is little evidence on the effect of different sources of Covid-19 vaccine news on changing the intention to adhere to health protocols. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the news sources of Covid vaccine 19 and the association of ea...

The spread of unwanted or malicious content through social media has become a major challenge. Traditional examples of this include social network spam, but an important new concern is the propagation of fake news through social media. A common approach for mitigating this problem is by using standard statistical classification to distinguish malicious (e.g., fake news) instances from benign (e...

Fake news pose serious threat to our society nowadays, particularly due to its wide spread through social networks. While human fact checkers cannot handle such tremendous information online in real time, AI technology can be leveraged to automate fake news detection. The first step leading to a sophisticated fake news detection system is the stance detection between statement and body text. In...

This article is part of a much broader study of persuasive techniques in television news in Iran. As a very important part of IRIB news IRINN has been chosen for this study. If we assume that one of the most influential television news, the power of persuasion to influence the audience is very important. It seemed that choosing the highest hypothetical level of news and deconstructing it would ...