The proliferation of misleading information in everyday access media outlets such as social media feeds, news blogs, and online newspapers have made it challenging to identify trustworthy news sources, thus increasing the need for computational tools able to provide insights into the reliability of online content. In this paper, we focus on the automatic identification of fake content in online...

Abstract: News outlets increasingly capitalize on the potential of push notifications to drive engagement and enhance readership. Such changes in news reporting and consumptions offer a new, largely overlooked, research perspective into the competing narratives about the definition of news, their impact on political participation, entrenchment of political views, the ubiquity of media environme...

This article explores the role of broadcast news media decision makers in shaping public understanding and debate of climate change risks. It locates the media within a "tangled web" of communication and debate between sources, media, and publics. The article draws on new qualitative research in the British context. The main body of it focuses on media source strategies, on climate change story...

The worldwide span of the microblogging service Twitter gives an opportunity to make international comparisons of trending topics of interest, such as news stories. Previous international comparisons of news interests have tended to use surveys and may bypass topics not well covered in the mainstream media. This article uses 9 months of English tweets from the UK, USA, India, South Africa, New ...

What kinds of social media users read junk news? We examine the distribution of the most significant sources of junk news in the three months before President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address. Drawing on a list of sources that consistently publish political news and information that is extremist, sensationalist, conspiratorial, masked commentary, fake news and other forms of junk...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated how the media has an influence on policy decisions and healthcare coverage. Studies of Canadian media have shown that news coverage often emphasizes and hypes certain aspects of high profile health debates. We hypothesized that in Canadian media coverage of access to healthcare issues about therapies and technologies including for rare diseases, the...

The connectivity and availability of the Internet enables truly grassroots networks to disseminate news at the personal level. In such an environment where news abounds and anyone can publish and distribute, a method is needed to filter the overwhelming quantity of information to locate news items that are relevant to the individual. Currently search engines are the primary method to locate onl...

This study explores the predictive power of lifestyle orientations, reliance on traditional news media, attributes of online news, traditional mass media use, and demographics on online news adoption and likelihood to adopt. Data were gathered using a snowballing method from 453 information workers and university students, of which 52% were frequent online newsreaders and 48% non-users. Explora...

News magazine being an important part of the print Media industry has so far been affected by World Wide Web and currently by the Smartphone Apps. They have just entered the industry with great promises and potential. Research focusing on the impact of news apps on the news magazines will provide an opportunity to understand how readers look at both technology and decide on using them. The stud...