Understanding the Competitive Landscape of News Providers on Social Media

Devipsita Bhattacharya, Sudha Ram

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Social media has emerged as a mechanism for online news propagation. This in turn has changed the competitive landscape of news providers, a landscape that was previously partitioned based on the traditional channels of news dispersion. The channels of news distribution refer to - television, newspaper, magazine, radio, news agency and online only. In this paper, we examine similarities and differences in news propagation patterns on social media based on the primary channel of a news provider. We collected news article propagation activity data from Twitter for 32 news providers over a three-week period and analyzed their propagation networks. Our analysis shows that the structural properties of the propagation networks are statistically different based on the type of primary channel. Our study has useful implications for understanding the competition between news providers in an online environment.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationWWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages719-724
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450341448
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 11 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: May 11 2016May 15 2016

Publication series

NameWWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period5/11/165/15/16

Keywords

  • article propagation
  • micro-blogging
  • news propagation
  • twitter

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software

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