information dissemination throughout the society is carried out by a phenomenon called news. this phenomenon is in relation to various social institutions as well as different aspects of people’s lives. in the present article, the writers believe that, firstly, the phenomenon of news, despite the operations carried out to disseminate and present it, has material value and that its economic valu...

A medium is that which remediates. It is that which appropriates the techniques, forms and social significance of other media and attempts to rival of refashion them in the name of the real. A medium in our culture can never operate in isolation, because it must enter into relationships of respect and rivalry with other media. (Bolter2 65) In relation to news and journalism, media is most commo...

The Zika virus has been in the news for quite some time due to the ongoing recent outbreak in the Southern America, which started in December 2015. It has been declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization in February 2016 owing to its association with the congenital deformities, particularly microcephaly in infants borne to the infected mothers. The rapid spread of the vi...

We compare news in Twitter with traditional outlets and emphasize their differential impact on Eurozone's sovereign bond market. reveal a two-way information flow between Twitter's “Grexit” tweets mentions which suggests not only that both types of serve as important empirical predictors for the market but also “old” (traditional news) “new” (Twitter) media are connected; however, influence is ...

Social media for news consumption is becoming popular nowadays. The low cost, easy access and rapid information dissemination of social media bring benefits for people to seek out news timely. However, it also causes the widespread of fake news, i.e., low-quality news pieces that are intentionally fabricated. The fake news brings about several negative effects on individual consumers, news ecos...

Social media have become part of modern news reporting, used by journalists to spread information and find sources, or as a news source by individuals. The quest for prominence and recognition on social media sites like Twitter can sometimes eclipse accuracy and lead to the spread of false information. As a way to study and react to this trend, we introduce TWITTERTRAILS, an interactive, web-ba...

I analyze company news from Reuters with the ‘General Inquirer’ and relate measures of positive sentiment, negative sentiment and disagreement to abnormal stock returns, stock and option trading volume, the volatility spread and the CDS spread. I test hypotheses derived from market microstructure models. Consistent with these models, sentiment and disagreement are strongly related to trading vo...

background :people are increasingly interested in health news. as a mass media, the ‘islamic republic of iran broadcasting’ (irib) has the highest number of target audiences. in iran, some people follow health news via health programs on satellites and other means of communication. however, all of these programs do not live up to the standards of scientific evidence. in this study, we examined ...

This research scrutinizes the content, spread, and implications of disinformation in Brazil’s 2018 pre-election period. It focuses specifically on most widely shared fake news about Lula da Silva links these with preexisting polarization political radicalization, ascertaining role context. The relied a case study mixed-methods approach that combined an online data collection propagators, intera...