ARTICLE: Sensationalism does indeed boost viewing time of news videos
The biggest truism about the use of sensationalism in news stories seems to be that it is a guarantee for success in terms of selling the stories to the public, … Continued
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ARTICLE: User generated content makes news appear less trustworthy
“It appears that journalism’s trustworthiness will more likely suffer than benefit from an increased use of UGC”, write Katherine M. Grosser and Florian Wintterlin, both of University of Münster, with … Continued
ARTICLE: Habit keeps older people true to traditional news
When it comes to older persons, traditional news media is still the first chosen source of information. The study by Karin Ljuslinder and Anna Sofia Lundgren, both of Umeå Universitet, analyses the narratives … Continued
PAPER: Some fake news stories persisted longer than others
There were geographic and time-related trends in consumption of fake news prior to the US presidential election. Adam Fourney, Miklos Z. Racz, Gireeja Ranade, Markus Mobius and Eric Horvitz, all … Continued
ARTICLE: Individual news repertoires and political participation
In contemporary high-choice media environments, people increasingly mix and combine their use of various news media into personal news repertoires, write Jesper Strömbäck, of University of Gothenburg, Kajsa Falasca, of Mid Sweden University, … Continued
ARTICLE: News app users read 20 times more mobile news than non-users
Jacob L. Nelson and Ryan F. Lei, both of Northwestern University, have analysed news readership data from over a million Americans. They wanted to measure whether desktop users differ from … Continued
ARTICLE: National papers do not set the public’s economic opinion
Does media coverage change the way the audience views economy, or does coverage follow the public opinion? Daniel J. Hopkins, Eunji Kim and Soojong Kim, all of University of Pennsylvania, … Continued
ARTICLE: Americans want more objectivity and less interpretation
Do journalists and their audience agree on what journalism should be like? The question was investigated by Lars Willnat, of Syracuse University, with David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit, … Continued
ARTICLE: Politicians’ hostile media perceptions
Politicians’ discomfort with journalism may be based on the hostile media phenomenon (HMP), write Jörg Matthes, of University of Vienna, Peter Maurer, of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Florian … Continued
ARTICLE: How to better analyse “echo chambers”
Curd Benjamin Knüpfer, of George Washington University, proposes a new model for analysing so-called “echo chambers”. To be more specific, Knüpfer moves away from the term “echo chamber”, suggesting it … Continued