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San Francisco Bay Area News Ecology

San Francisco Bay Area News Ecology. Hayreddin Ceker. Outline. Background Project Description Data collection Related Work. Background. INTERNET. Networked Media . Traditional Media . communication and the expression -TV -Radio -Print publications. Democratic and decentralized

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San Francisco Bay Area News Ecology

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  1. San Francisco Bay Area News Ecology Hayreddin Ceker

  2. Outline • Background • Project Description • Data collection • Related Work

  3. Background INTERNET Networked Media Traditional Media • communication and the expression • -TV • -Radio • -Print publications • Democratic and decentralized • The audience can contribute • Community to participation • and consumption

  4. Supporting Idea A key point is given by Adrienne Russell to support the idea of new networked media and its reliance in her book Treatments of new media in Iraq War (2003) Treatments of old media in Gulf War (1991) It is referred overtly that George W. Bush was not able to repeat the father Bush’s trick of massaging the message, 12 years after Bush senior expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

  5. Project Description Use “Complex Networks” analysis to demonstrate transition from Traditional Media to Networked Media • Take snapshots of current ecosystem, San Francisco Bay Area • News-to-news network • Author-to-link network • Commenter network

  6. News-to-news NW • Inbound link # • Outbound link # • Central nodes • Corner nodes

  7. Author-to-link NW • Bipartite graph Author 1 • Source for news • Author’s attitude • Old style vs Hyperlinks San Francisco Chronicle Author 2 San Jose Mercury News Author 3 Degree of author Degree of websites

  8. Commenter NW • Bipartite Graph • Links between commenters and news • 1-node graph • How the commenters • interact with each other Commenter 1 Commenter 1 News A 1 Commenter 2 2 Commenter 2 News B Commenter 3 Commenter 3

  9. Effective Factors • Measure density, centrality, betweenness etc. metrics • Seek for “degree of leakage” • The links which are not in the ecology • Influence of “agenda setting” • The power of media in affecting audiences in terms of • what stories to consider newsworthy • how much prominence and space to give them

  10. Predictions • News-to-news network • Groups of websites • Source • Hubs • Blogs • Big organizations have more inbound links and very few outbound links • Blog news websites have outbound links • Comments are under effect of agenda setting • Degree of leakage toward Wikipedia like websites

  11. I wonder whether • There are similar values of • Average number of inbound or outbound links for the websites in the same category • Average number of comments etc • There are popular news, authors, commenters

  12. Data Collection • Use a sample of 180 news websites from the San Francisco Bay area • Crawl the websites Link recognition Author Recognition Comment Recognition

  13. Problems • No standard structure of websites • Author • Comment • Commenters • Old websites have huge amount of pages • Hard to crawl • Links to non-existing websites • Advertisements • Media objects

  14. Related Work • Power-law distribution in co-authorship by Newman • The Internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news

  15. Cont’d • A Network Analysis of Chicago Websites • To simplify analysis, sites were coded by Category

  16. El Fin Thank you for listening! ¿QUESTIONS?

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