With online publication and social media taking the main role in dissemination of news, and with the decline of traditional printed media, it has become necessary to devise ways to automatically extract meaningful information from the plethora of sources available and to make that information readily available to interested parties. In this paper we present a method of automated analysis of the...

Metasearching of online current news services is a potentially useful Web application of distributed information retrieval techniques. We constructed a realistic current news test collection using the results obtained from 15 current news websites (including ABC News, BBC and AllAfrica) in response to 107 topical queries. Results were judged for relevance by independent assessors. Online news s...

In this paper, we shall introduce the problem of free-texttagging of online news archives. From an application point of view, it has many benefits for online news portals and on the other hand, the task has unique characteristics compared to existing approaches for free-text-tagging. We shall describe our system, which was developed for the archive (consisting of 370 thousand articles) of the m...

This study examines, through a content analysis of the census of news stories posted in a Colombian online political community, how status cues and informational cascades shape participation in online political discussions. Specifically, it looks at how the authors’ news stories posting increase rate, the number of news story sources, the velocity at which comments to a news story start to appe...

This study compares the effects of consuming news preference online or offline on political participation. It also examines the variation in these effects between young and older adults. Given that young adults are disproportionately more intensive users of the Internet, Internet use may have varying effects on people’s political participation by their age. Secondary analysis of Pew data found ...

Through a mixed methods research design, we address normative aspects of news recommendation engines by examining whether search personalisation and diversity are evident on Google News in the UK. First, quasi-experimental asked diverse set participants (N = 78) to using four terms report first five articles recommended for each term. We found little evidence personalisation, which challenges c...

The notion that information moves through social networks has been widely discussed[3], however, with the growing availability of large digital corpora, the ability to quantitatively model this phenomenon is new. To this end we explore a large corpus of online news quotations looking for cases of noisy reproduction and the factors which influence such noise. An essential step in this process is...

The development of the internet has drastically changed the newspaper industry, and the way people read news stories [3]. Newspapers are shifting from print to online version, with some unexpected results [1, 2, 6]. Good news for the newspaper industry? The proliferation of news aggregators such as Google News1 is blamed for killing the “old media”. With these aggregators, people visit a newspa...