News Consumers, Opinion Leaders, and Citizen Consumers

Citizen Consumers: towards a new marketing of politics

Genuine and Natural: The Opinion of Teen Consumers

Food packaging frequently reports the terms natural, 100% natural or similar. Often these indications induce consumers to purchase those products that are considered healthier and fresher. The overall goal of this study was to assess what teen consumers perceive to be genuine and natural foods. A questionnaire was distributed to the students of some high schools (lyceum, technical and professio...

Discovering opinion leaders for medical topics using news articles

BACKGROUND Rapid identification of subject experts for medical topics helps in improving the implementation of discoveries by speeding the time to market drugs and aiding in clinical trial recruitment, etc. Identifying such people who influence opinion through social network analysis is gaining prominence. In this work, we explore how to combine named entity recognition from unstructured news a...

Data in Context: Aiding News Consumers while Taming Dataspaces

We present MuckRaker, a tool that provides news consumers with datasets and visualizations that contextualize facts and figures in the articles they read. MuckRaker takes advantage of data integration techniques to identify matching datasets, and makes use of data and schema extraction algorithms to identify data points of interest in articles. It presents the output of these algorithms to user...

News and the Overloaded Consumer: Factors Influencing Information Overload Among News Consumers

News producers continue to increase their volume of production and delivery platforms in an effort to reach and maintain news consumers. However, consumers may not necessarily find more news desirable. Previous studies have suggested that information surplus can lead to negative outcomes for consumers, but research of outcomes related to news production and consumption has been scant. This stud...