VillageSoup: Sustaining News in a Rural Setting

In rural Camden, Maine, Richard Anderson has found a formula for sustainable news coverage in an age when the Internet seems to be killing the news business. He began by starting an online-only news site for the community in 1996, an ambitious and early web presence. By specializing in quick, hard news, community service, citizen involvement, and community leadership, Anderson built an audience for his VillageSoup website. But the community had a moribund weekly newspaper that soaked up much of the advertising revenue. After five years of online-only news, Anderson started his own weekly paper newspaper that republished his web content. Today, Anderson has a sustainable multimedia enterprise, and a business model that could serve as the savior for weekly newspapers in communities with a population around 30,000. VillageSoup may be the first genuine example of alternative news media reaching sustainability

Teaching the Digital Reader: Exploring the relationship between journalistic writing and reading in the Digital Age

Teaching the Digital Reader: Exploring the relationship between journalistic writing and reading in the Digital Age. How is the Internet changing how we consume information and what does it mean for reading and comprehension skills of the future. What role can journalism play 1) Beyond the ability to read the printed word; children, youth, and adults need the ability to critically interpret the images of a multimedia culture. What is news literacy? 2)How does the audience read on the Web? Non-linear news consumption on the Web. 3)How can basic journalistic skills help improve student comprehension and critical thinking? 4)How can teachers use the newspaper or news Web site to develop student reading, writing and idea development? 5)Outcome and Assessment strategies In the sections above, we can talk about teaching idea development, research, reporting and writing for the reader. We can also talk about the latest education coverage in the U.S. which is now stressing something called the "common core curriculum"- which is more teaching to the test.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

From Prosumer to “Prodesigner”: Participatory News Consumption

New democratic participation forms and collaborative productions of diverse audiences have emerged as a result of digital innovations in the online access to and consumption of news. The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework based on the possibilities of Web 2.0. Outlining the construction of a “social logic”, which combines computer and communicative logics, the conceptual framework is theoretically built to explore the evolution of news consumption from a pure circulation of designed products towards a global conversation of proactive news designers. Then, the framework was tested using an empirical database built by the Pew Research Centre, which investigates the future of the news industry, through a large-scale survey with adults. Results show significant differences (by age, gender and educational level) in the forms of participation, access and consumption of news. However, whilst immersed in the culture of Web 2.0 there is a low-level of user participation in news production; far from being proactive news designers, findings suggest that citizens still located in the lower participatory levels of our conceptual framework. Conclusions suggest there is a need for media education providers to carry out training initiatives according to the social logic possibilities through proposed guidelines

La demanda de los periódicos impresos y online: un análisis económico

Se está produciendo un cambio en las pautas de consumo de los periódicos impresos, con una continua reducción del número de lectores más jóvenes, por otra parte las nuevas tecnologías están acelerando este proceso de cambio. Los jóvenes acuden a Internet en su demanda de noticias, y es además cada vez mayor el público de otras edades y de distintas clases sociales que también acude a la Red con este mismo objetivo. En Internet los periódicos online no sólo tienen que competir con las web de los otros medios, sino también con otros proveedores online de noticias.A change is taking place in the consumption patterns of printed newspapers, to the extent that a steady decline of customers is the trend, especially as regards the younger strata, and th widespread use of new technologies acts as a reinforcing factor in these changing habits. Young people use internet in order to supply their news demand, and this is also the means that other age groups and people from different social strata are taking advantage of. In Internet newspapers on-line must not only compete with the web-sites of other news media but also with other news providers

The Collective Direction of Attention Diffusion

abstract: We find that the flow of attention on the Web forms a directed, tree-like structure implying the time-sensitive browsing behavior of users. Using the data of a news sharing website, we construct clickstream networks in which nodes are news stories and edges represent the consecutive clicks between two stories. To identify the flow direction of clickstreams, we define the “flow distance” of nodes (L[subscript i]), which measures the average number of steps a random walker takes to reach the ith node. It is observed that L[subscript i] is related with the clicks (C[subscript i]) to news stories and the age (T[subscript i]) of stories. Putting these three variables together help us understand the rise and decay of news stories from a network perspective. We also find that the studied clickstream networks preserve a stable structure over time, leading to the scaling between users and clicks. The universal scaling behavior is confirmed by the 1,000 Web forums. We suggest that the tree-like, stable structure of clickstream networks reveals the time-sensitive preference of users in online browsing. To test our assumption, we discuss three models on individual browsing behavior, and compare the simulation results with empirical data.The final version of this article, as published in Scientific Reports, can be viewed online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep3405

Analysis of Bias in Gathering Information Between User Attributes in News Application

In the process of information gathering on the web, confirmation bias is known to exist, exemplified in phenomena such as echo chambers and filter bubbles. Our purpose is to reveal how people consume news and discuss these phenomena. In web services, we are able to use action logs of a service to investigate these phenomena. However, many existing studies about these phenomena are conducted via questionnaires, and there are few studies using action logs. In this paper, we attempt to discover biases of information gathering due to differences in user demographic attributes, such as age and gender, from the behavior log of the news distribution service. First, we summarized the actions in the service for each user attribute and showed the difference of user behavior depending on the attributes. Next, the degree of correlation between the attributes was measured using the correlation coefficient, and a strong correlation was found to exist in the browsing tendency of the news articles between the attributes. Then, the bias of keywords between attributes was discovered, keywords with bias in behavior among the attributes were found using parameters of regression analysis. Since these discovered keywords are almost explainable by big news, our proposed method is effective in detecting biased keywords.Comment: 8 pages, 13 figure, IEEE BigData 2018 Workshop : The 3rd International Workshop on Application of Big Data for Computational Social Science (ABCSS2018

Web Application for News Portal

News Portal provides access to all online Information about the Environment and each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information. Ne ws portal is to provide specific information, selected from newswire sit es on the Internet and also by video clips automatically extracted from TV broadcasts and as per the needs of users . The idea to made this project is to develop such web sites which will be very User friendly. This web site is working for peoples who want to share something interesting, knowledgeable, healthy, and entertainment. The traditional media rooms all around the world are fast adapting to the new age technologies. This marks the beginnin g of news portals by media houses across the globe and such new media channels give them the opportunity to reach the viewers in a shorter span of time than their print media counterparts

The Development of an Electronic Newspaper at the Deseret News and a Survey of its Users

This thesis looks at the history of electronic newspaper delivery systems at several newspapers and provides an in-depth study of how one Utah daily newspaper, the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, developed its own electronic newspaper over a period of years and convinced its board of directors to support it. It outlines the process of defining goals, policies and processes for creating and managing the system. It contains results of a survey conducted of subscribers to the electronic edition, called Crossroads. The survey provides demographic profiles of Crossroads users, shows how often the electronic edition is used in their homes by users in various age groups and for what purposes. The survey results indicate which services of Crossroads are most and least popular among users and allows respondents to recommend changes and improvements in Crossroads. The concluding chapter provides a look ahead at what electronic information systems are currently emerging, particularly the World Wide Web. Indications are that the Web is replacing earlier electronic newspaper editions as a simpler way to receive information. The Deseret News plans to eliminate Crossroads and concentrate its efforts on its Web page. The newspaper has plans to charge a fee for some information it currently makes available on the page

Production of semi real time media-GIS contents using MODIS imagery

[Abstract]: Delivering environmental disaster information, swiftly, attractively, meaningfully, and accurately, to public is becoming a competitive task among spatial data visualizing experts. Basically, the data visualization process has to follow basics of spatial data visualization to maintain the academic quality and the spatial accuracy of the content. Here, “Media-GIS”, can be promoted as a one of the latest sub-forms of GIS, which targets mass media. Under Media-GIS, “Present” or the fist component of three roles of data visualization takes the major workload compare to other two, “Analysis” and “Explore”. When present contents, optimizing the main graphical variables like, size, value, texture, hue, orientation, and shape, is vital with regard to the target market (age group, social group) and the medium (print, TV, WEB, mobile). This study emphasizes on application of freely available MODIS true colour images to produce near real time contents on environmental disasters, while minimizing the production cost. With the brake of first news of a significant environmental disaster, relevant MODIS (250m) images can be extracted in GeoTIFF and KLM (Keyhole Markup Language) formats from MODIS website. This original KML file can be overlayed on Google Earth, to collect more spatial information of the disaster site. Then, in ArcGIS environment, GeoTIFF file can be transferred into Photoshop for production of the graphics of the target spot. This media-friendly Photoshop file can be used as an independent content without geo-references or imported into ArcGIS to convert into KLM format, which has geo-references. The KLM file, which is graphically enhanced content with extra information on environmental disaster, can be used in TV and WEB through Google Earth. Also, sub productions can be directed into print and mobile contents. If the data processing can be automated, system will be able to produce media contents in a faster manner. A case study on the recent undersea oil spill occurred in Gulf of Mexico included in the report to highlight main aspects discussed in the methodology

The changing information environment for nanotechnology: online audiences and content

The shift toward online communication in all realms, from print newspapers to broadcast television, has implications for how the general public consumes information about nanotechnology. The goal of this study is threefold: to investigate who is using online sources for information and news about science and nanotechnology, to examine what the general public is searching for online with regards to nanotechnology, and to analyze what they find in online content of nanotechnology. Using survey data, we find those who report the Internet as their primary source of science and technology news are diverse in age, more knowledgeable about science and nanotechnology, highly educated, male, and more diverse racially than users of other media. In a comparison of demographic data on actual visits by online users to general news and science Web sites, science sites attracted more male, non-white users from the Western region of the United States than news sites did. News sites, on the other hand, attracted those with a slightly higher level of education. Our analysis of published estimates of keyword searches on nanotechnology reveals people are turning to the Internet to search for keyword searches related to the future, health, and applications of nanotechnology. A content analysis of online content reveals health content dominates overall. Comparisons of content in different types of sites—blogs, government, and general sites—are conducted