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Evolution of News in Networked Publics Axel Maireder , University of Vienna DIATA 11, 14 - 15 September 2011, Düsseldorf

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Presentation at #diata11, the Düsseldorf Interdisciplinary Workshop on Twitter Analysis, 14-15 September 2011

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Evolution of News in Networked PublicsAxel Maireder, University of Vienna DIATA 11, 14 - 15 September 2011, Düsseldorf

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TraditionalNews Diffusion Research

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Death of Sen. Robert Taft(Larsen/Hill 1954)CC:  US  PUBLIC  DOMAIN

 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Robert_a_taft.jpg

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Kennedy Assasination(Greenberg 1964)CC:  JFK  Assasination  Zapruder  Filmhttp://www.Llickr.com/photos/e-­‐strategycom/1053257131/

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9/11 Attacks(Rogers/Seidl 2010)

CC:  Mate  Eric  J.  Tilford.  http://www.Llickr.com/photos/slagheap/132105258/

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News Diffusion Research• Singular news events• Asking: How fast do news spread and through which channel?

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News Diffusion Research• Telephone interviews at different times after the event• Asking if they knew and where they knew it from

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News Diffusion ResearchDiffusion curves

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(Rogers/Seidl 2010) (Singhal et al. 2011)

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Factors of diffusion• Channels (Basil / Brown 1994, Rogers 2000)

• News salience (Gantz et al. 1976)

• Personal relevance (Gantz & Trenholm 1979)

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Problems: • News itself stays virtually unchanged• News detached from history• Based on the basic Two-Step-Flow model

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News evolve over time • New information may be added• New perpectives may be added• Frames may change

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News are embedded in ongoing discourses • Stories have a history• Stories have contexts• History and context shape story evolution

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News evolve in networked publics • Different communication channels • Different sources• Kind of „Multi-Step-Flow“?

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Questions • Diffusion of News through Social Media?• Linkage btw. Press Releases, News Media, Blogs, UGC Platforms & Social Media?• News evolution in News Media vs. Social Media?

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Im et al. (2010) • Two cases in Korea• Content analysis of everything online related to story• Coded type of transformative activity to news story

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Twitter and News • Important source for News (Pew Research 2010, CMRC 2011)

• Major driver of Traffic to News Websites (Pew Research 2011)

• Heavily linking to News Media (Maireder 2011)

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Our Research Design‣ Tracking story development for ~72 hours‣ Everything online‣ Links / Sources‣ Story Aspects

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Cases๏ News discussed in Austria only๏ First source clearly assignable๏ Should lead to a widespread, national discussion

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from Austrian Press Agency‘s database

from Sensemetric‘sweb crawler

Items / Sources๏ Press Releases ๏ Online News Media Articles๏ TV / Radio News Clips

๏ Blog Entries๏ Tweets๏ Other Web Resources

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Homogenizing๏ Channel๏ Time published (hourly)๏ Hyperlinks extracted, named sources noted

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Coding✦ Aspects of the Story‣ Story development (events) (15)‣ Direct Background / Context (6)‣ Further aspects / general commentary (5)

✦ Type of Text (,objective‘ > commentarial)

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Case 1: Uwe Scheuch‘s conviction

CC:  Georg  Holzer,  http://farm7.static.Llickr.com/6145/6001226817_782c30783b_b.jpg

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Material

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NewspaperTV / RadioPress ReleasesUGCTwitter

Keyword „Scheuch“Number of items by source

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Total: 1578

Tweets / Hour

Gerhard  Dörfler  (Governor  of  Carinthia)  TV  Interview

First  Reac<ons  by  FP  Poli<cians

FP  ABack  on  Jurisprudence

VP  halts  coali<on  in  Carinthia

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Mass Media Press ReleasesTV/Radio User Generatedother

Where do Tweets Link to?

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News (story development)Background / ContextFurther / Commentary

What do they report/talk about?

Share of all Tweets

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Total Number of Tweets

Gerhard  Dörfler  (Governor  of  Carinthia)  TV  Interview

First  Reac<ons  by  FP  Poli<cians FP  Assembly  

N=1179

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Other first findings- Twitter links to News Media contentrated to a few articles- Twitter adding lot‘s of context/ history; f.e. old press releases: „Revenge of the archive“- Lot‘s of general commentary

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Two more cases to followFurther analysis:• Aspects / Link Targets• Linkage patterns (mapping)• Combined analysis of cases

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Thanks.

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Axel Maireder, University of [email protected]/axelmaireder

1. Otto N. Larsen and Richard J. Hill, “Mass Media and Interpersonal Communication in the Diffusion of a News Event,” American Sociological Review 19, no. 4 (1954): 426-433.

2. Bradley S. Greenberg, “Diffusion of News of the Kennedy Assassination,” The Public Opinion Quarterly 28, no. 2 (July 1, 1964): 225-232.

3. Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations, 3rd ed. (New York: The Free Press, 1983).

4. Arvind Singhal, Everett Rogers, and Meenakshi Mahajan, “The gods are drinking milk! Word-of-mouth diffusion of a major news event in India,” Asian Journal of Communication 9, no. 1 (1999): 86.

5. Walter Gantz and Sarah Trenholm, “Why People Pass on News Events: A Study of Motivations for Interpersonal Diffusion.”, 1978, http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED153270.

6. Walter Gantz and Hiroshi Tokinoya, “Diffusion of News About the Assassination of Olof Palme: A Trans-Continental, Two-City Comparison of the Process,” European Journal of Communication 2, no. 2 (June 1, 1987): 197 -210.

7. Michael D. Basil and William J. Brown, “Interpersonal Communication in News Diffusion: A Study of ‘Magic’ Johnson’s Announcement.,” Journalism Quarterly 71, no. 2 (1994): 305-20.

8. Pew Research, “Navigating News Online”, 2011, http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/navigating_news_online.

9. Pew Research, Understanding the Participatory News Consumer, 2010, http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Online-News/Summary-of-Findings.aspx.

10. Canadian edia Research Consortium CMRC, Social Networks Transforming How Canadians Get the News, 2011, http://www.mediaresearch.ca/en/projects/socialmedia.htm.