Following online news and updates have become an ever-increasing part of life in the information age. Surprisingly, however, there is no standardized measurement to examine excessive consumption context. This study was conducted order address addiction by developing validating a questionnaire. Furthermore, this investigated psychological determinants consequences addiction. A 9-item questionnai...

Are quoted sources in online news as psychologically meaningful us those in printed and broadcast news ? A within-suhjects experiment was designed to answer this question. On a web site,forty-eight subjects read three online news stories with cjuotes and three stories without source attribution. They rated stories with quotes significantly higher in credibility and quality than identical storie...

Online news reading is becoming an important part of the daily routine of online web users. The amount of information available online is increasing exponentially. Although this information is a valuable resource but lots of scattered, unstructured, irrelevant data is increasing on the web every moment which limits its value. Many research projects and companies are exploring the use of persona...

A within-subjects experiment explored how the number of online, hyperlinked stories available for individuals to choose from affects cognitive processing of a selected story. Participants chose and read unpleasant online news stories from a Web page containing either 5 or 15 headline/photo hyperlinks. Heart rate data indicated more cognitive resources were allocated to reading stories selected ...

The Internet plays a major role as a source of news. Many publishers offer online versions of their newspapers to paying customers. Online newspapers bear more similarity with traditional print papers than with regular news sites. In a close collaboration with Mediengruppe Madsack publisher of newspapers in several German federal states, we aim at providing a semantically enriched online newspa...

A growing number of people are changing the way they consume news, replacing the traditional physical newspapers and magazines by their virtual online versions or/and weblogs. The interactivity and immediacy present in online news are changing the way news are being produced and exposed by media corporations. News websites have to create effective strategies to catch people’s attention and attr...

An attempt is made to study the social network site, Vahid Online, pseudonym of a leading Iranian activist who has the largest social media followership online. Vahid Online is Iran’s leading distributor of information about social and political news about Iran, a source of information used by citizens and journalists. Similar to Twitter, Vahid Online posts, shares, and communicates news in sho...

This experimental study tested the knowledge gap hypothesis at the intersection of audience education levels and news formats (newspaper versus online). The findings reveal a gap in public affairs knowledge acquisition between South Korean citizens (N=123) from different educational backgrounds. Moreover, the high education group comprehended news with the same level of efficiency across online...

Online news media sites are presently the primary sources of news for a large number of users world-wide. The content published by media sites have high temporal churn as they tend to focus on recommending recent / breaking news. Analyzing data from a popular online mass media site nytimes.com as well as a popular online social media site twitter.com, we show that the resulting churn in popular...

Classification of online news, in the past, has often been done manually. In our proposed Categorizor system, we have experimented an automated approach to classify online news using the Support Vector Machine (SVM). SVM has been shown to deliver good classification results when ample training documents are given. In our research, we have applied SVM to personalized classification of online new...