Anecdotal evidence suggests consumers navigate to news outlets that are government controlled (GC) and pro-government biased even in the presence of independent news outlets. Does this imply a demand for pro-government bias in the news? Or do consumers enjoy other aspects of GC news outlets such as quality or brand? To answer these questions, we examine consumers’ demand in the Russian online n...

Recommending online news articles has become a promising research direction as the Internet provides fast access to real-time information from multiple sources around the world. Many online readers have their own reading preference on news articles; however, a group of users might be interested in similar fascinating topics. It would be helpful to take into consideration the individual and grou...

This study examines whether news is more or less homogeneous online than in print across agenda-setting news outlets in the United States, Denmark, and France. Examining similarities and differences in the genres, topics, and authors of news in each country’s leading newspapers, it finds little evidence of greater online homogeneity in any country. U.S. news outlets are more differentiated onli...

Online communities such as question and answer (QA) systems are growing rapidly and we increasingly rely on them for valuable information and entertainment. However, finding meaningful rewards to motivate participation from the most qualified users, or experts, presents researchers with two main challenges: identifying these users and (2) rewarding their participation. Using an interdisciplinar...

A comprehensive critical survey of the controversies, theories and practices central to secondary education today, this book provides teachers, researchers, parents and policy-makers alike with a vital new reference resource."Secondary Education: The Key Concepts" covers important topics, including: * assessment* citizenship* curriculum* e-learning* exclusion* theories of learning* work experie...

This study investigates the influence of online news and clickbait headlines on online users’ emotional arousal and behavior. An experiment was conducted to examine the level of arousal in three online news headline groups—news headlines, clickbait headlines, and control headlines. Arousal was measured by two different measurement approaches—pupillary response recorded by an eye-tracking device...

This study attempts a new conceptualization of communication “sources” by proposing a typology of sources that would apply not only to traditional media but also to new online media. Ontological rationale for the distinctions in the typology is supplemented by psychological evidence via an experiment that investigated the effects of different types of source attributions upon receivers’ percept...

Identifying topics in news, tracking their temporal dynamics, and understanding how different media sources cover them have important theoretical and practical implications for journalism researchers, producers, and consumers. The explosive growth of online news sources, however, suggests that scalable approaches to topical analysis are needed. We introduce our ongoing efforts to enable large-s...

This case study examines how traditional and Internet news use, as well as face-to-face and online political discussion, contributed to political participation during the period leading up to the Iraq War. A Web-based survey of political dissenters (N=307) conducted at the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq provides the data used to examine the relationships among informational media use, o...