TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding the Competitive Landscape of News Providers on Social Media
AU - Bhattacharya, Devipsita
AU - Ram, Sudha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2).
PY - 2016/4/11
Y1 - 2016/4/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - article propagation
KW - micro-blogging
KW - news propagation
KW - twitter
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U2 - 10.1145/2872518.2890097
DO - 10.1145/2872518.2890097
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85064019037
T3 - WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
SP - 719
EP - 724
BT - WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016
Y2 - 11 May 2016 through 15 May 2016
ER -