Adapting the influences of publishers to perform news event detection

2021 ◽  
pp. 016555152110474
Author(s):  
Chun Chieh Chen ◽  
Hei-Chia Wang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Event Detection ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Extraction Method ◽  
Online News ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Public Expectations ◽  
The People ◽  
Event Trigger ◽  
News Event

Online news outlets have the power to influence public policy issues. To understand the opinions of the people, many government departments check online news outlets to manually detect events that interest people. This process is time-consuming. To promptly respond to public expectations, this research proposes a framework for detecting news events that may interest government departments. This article proposes a method for finding event trigger words used to represent an event. The news media can be a critical participant in ‘agenda-setting’, which means that more widely discussed news is more attractive and critical than news that is less discussed. However, few studies have considered the influence of news media publishers from the ‘agenda setting’ perspective. Therefore, this study proposes an ‘agenda setting’-based filter to establish a high-impact news event detection model. The proposed framework identifies trigger words and utilises word embedding to find news event–related words. After that, an event detection model is designed to determine the events that are attractive to government departments. The experimental results show that purity increases from 0.666 when no extraction method is used to 0.809 when the extraction method in this study is used. The overall improvement trend shows significant improvement in event detection performance.

scholarly journals The Production of Information in an Online World

2019 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 2126-2164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Cagé ◽  
Nicolas Hervé ◽  
Marie-Luce Viaud
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
High Reactivity ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Production ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Commercial Viability ◽  
Incentive Problem ◽  
News Event

Abstract News production requires investment, and competitors’ ability to appropriate a story may reduce a media’s incentives to provide original content. Yet, there is little legal protection of intellectual property rights in online news production, which raises the issue of the extent of copying online and the incentives to provide original content. In this article, we build a unique dataset combining all the online content produced by French news media during the year 2013 with new micro audience data. We develop a topic detection algorithm that identifies each news event, trace the timeline of each story, and study news propagation. We provide new evidence on online news production. First, we document high reactivity of online media: one quarter of the news stories are reproduced online in under 4 min. We show that this is accompanied by substantial copying, both at the extensive and at the intensive margins, which may constitute a severe threat to the commercial viability of the news media. Next, we estimate the returns to originality in online news production. Using article-level variations and media-level daily audience combined with article-level social media statistics, we find that original content producers tend to receive more viewers, thereby mitigating the newsgathering incentive problem raised by copying.

When politics intervenein non-political news flow

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194
Author(s):  
Yiyan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Online News ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting

Abstract While intermedia agenda-setting scholars have examined the process from a global perspective, trans-regional intermedia agenda setting, especially in non-western context, remains understudied. By analyzing the time-series data of news coverage on air pollution, a non-political topic, from online news media in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from 2015 to 2018, this study revealed a triangular first-level agenda-setting relationship among the three regions and identified the changing agenda setters across years, which disproves the imperialistic stereotype that there is a one-way control from mainland China media. The study also revealed the significant yet unconventional moderating effect of the political stance of news organizations in the trans-regional information flow. This study contributes to the intermedia agenda-setting literature by introducing the method of controlling the real-life situation in the Granger Causality test and by showing that non-political issues can also be politicalized in the salience transferring process.

scholarly journals ‘Our words are stronger’: Re-enforcing boundaries through ritual work in a terrorist news event

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Sumiala ◽  
Tiina Räisä
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Media Ethnography ◽  
Media Events ◽  
News Events ◽  
News Event ◽  
Online News Sites

This article investigates the ritual work in terrorist news events, using the Berlin truck attack as a case in point. The article connects with the larger cluster of anthropologically inspired communication research on media events as public rituals in news media and applies digital media ethnography as its method. Fieldwork is conducted in 15 online news sites. The article identifies three key phases through which the ritual work was carried out: the rupture in the news event (ritualised as the strike), the liminal phase (ritualised as the manhunt) and the reconstitution of order following the attack (ritualised as the mourning). The article concludes with an interpretation of the broader social implications of the ritual work and related naturalisation of ‘friends’ and ‘foes’ and suggests that this type of ritual work contributes to a collective mythologisation of terrorism in news media and society at large.

scholarly journals The Discourse of Submissiveness to God in the Pandemic Time through “BURDAH KELILING”

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 5276-5284
Author(s):  
Mundi Rahayu, Mediyansyah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The People ◽  
The Village

Burdah Keliling” is an activity in which people of a village walking around the village, led by an ustad or kyai (local religious teacher) while chanting “Sholawat Burdah”. Shalawat burdah is one of shalawat or singing praising Muhammad SAW which is  very popular among Indonesian muslim community especially in the rural areas. The lyrics or material of shalawat is religious and the texts are devotional. This paper aims at explaining the discourse of Burdah Keliling as a cultural approach of mitigation of the pandemic Covid-19. The specific question raised in this paper: how is the discourse of submissiveness to God represented through “Burdah Keliling.”  This is a qualitative method, using observation, and online interview. The observation takes the online news media, and online  interview aims to reveal the experience and opinion of the persons involved in the activity of Burdah Keliling.  The writers argue that the cultural activity of Burdah keliling has played important roles in building people’s well-being psychologically. In the pandemic time nowadays, people need an activity that nurture them psychologically so that they can avoid stress and pressure due to the pandemic. The analysis is done through Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis. The study shows that “burdah keliling” is very meaningful for the people involved in the activity. This activity means to express people’s submissiveness, surrender to Allah SWT, so that avoiding them from panic and stress due to the pandemic of covid-19 rampaging across the country.

scholarly journals How the news media set the agenda

2004 ◽  
pp. 217-223
Author(s):  
Maxwell McCombs ◽  
Iris Chyi ◽  
Spiro Kiousis
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory ◽  
News Event

The agenda-setting role of the news media is a powerful influence on what we pay attention to and how we understand the vast world of public affairs that lies beyond our personal experience. Subsequent to the seminal Chapel Hill study in 1972, agenda setting theory has expanded beyond the influence of the news media on the public to elaborate the broader process of agenda setting. The scope of the theory now extends from the elements that shape the media agenda to the consequences of agenda-setting effects for attitudes and opinions. This article presents the results of two empirical studies recently published in the United States that further elaborate this process. One explicates how the press shifts its spotlight from one aspect to another of a major news event to build the prominence of that event on the media agenda. The second explicates the implications of prominence on the media agenda for the public’s attitudes and opinions about public figures.

scholarly journals Setting the Transgender Agenda: Intermedia Agenda-Setting in the Digital News Environment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J Billard
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
Digital News

Transgender issues have recently emerged as highly salient topics of political contestation in the United States. This paper investigates one relevant factor in that ascent: intermedia agenda-setting between digital-native and legacy press news. Through a content analysis of the top-five digital-native and top-five legacy press online news entities from 2014 to 2015, we investigate the dynamics of intermedia agenda-setting in the context of transgender topics, both at the level of attention to transgender topics in general and at the level of attention to specific issues related to the transgender community (e.g., anti-transgender violence). Results indicate significant causal effects of digital-native coverage on legacy press coverage at the level of general attention to transgender topics. However, results also indicate that at the level of specific transgender issues, digital-native coverage drives legacy press coverage on some issues, which legacy press coverage drives digital-native coverage on others. Implications for intermedia agenda-setting in the digital news media environment and for the future of transgender political rights movements are discussed.

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