NDLI: Using tags for breaking news elicitation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chua, A.Y.K. Goh, D.H.-L.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (Chua, A.Y.K.; Goh, D.H.-L.)
Abstract	The reduction in news cycle time coupled with high Internet penetration have resulted in a phenomenon known as ‘citizen journalism’ where ordinary people who are non-journalists collect, analyze and disseminate news pieces. This paper leverages tags drawn from iReport, an active citizen journalism Website to elicit breaking news. The goal is to examine the coverage and effectiveness of news elicitation in iReport vis-à-vis those reported in the mainstream media. The data collection procedure involved manually culling major news events reported in mainstream news sources between April 8 and June 6 2008. In parallel, tags from iReport postings were extracted during the same study period. Tags were analyzed using correlational analysis and relative frequencies. Results show that out of the 10 major news events reported in mainstream sources, five could be elicited from tags in iReport. Implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	302463
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424442539
DOI	10.1109/ICDIM.2009.5356780
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-11-01
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Frequency
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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