An examination of the relationship between international telecommunication networks, terrorism and global news coverage

Barnett, George A.; Ruiz, Jeanette B.; Hammond, Jesse; Xin, Zhige

doi:10.1007/s13278-013-0117-9

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“…Communication scholars have investigated communication networks from the standpoint of the global Internet and international telecommunication (Barnett & Park, 2014;Barnett, Ruiz, Hammond, & Xin, 2013;Howard, 2010;Lee, Monge, Bar, & Matei, 2007;Park, Barnett, & Chung, 2011). For example, Barnett (2001) conducted a longitudinal analysis of the international telecommunications network from 1978 to 1996.…”

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A mixture model of global internet capacity distributions

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Thorson

2015

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This paper develops a preferential attachment based mixture model of global Internet bandwidth and investigates it in the context of observed bandwidth distributions between 2002 and 2011. Our longitudinal analysis shows, among other things, that the bandwidth share distributions -and thus bandwidth differences -exhibit considerable path dependence where country proportions of international bandwidth in 2011 can be substantially accounted for by a preferential attachment based mixture of micro-level processes. Interestingly, our preferential attachment model, consistent with empirical data, does not predict increasing concentration of bandwidth within top ranked countries. We argue that recognizing the strong, but nuanced, historical inertia of bandwidth distributions is helpful in better discriminating among competing theoretical perspectives on the global digital divide as well as in clarifying policy discussions related to gaps between bandwidth rich and bandwidth poor countries.

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A mixture model of global internet capacity distributions

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Thorson

2015

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“…This resulted in 624 measures of the terrorism news network (52 weeks times 12 years). Barnett et al ( 2013 ) examined the same database. However, in that case the data were aggregated to the annual level (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010).…”

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Using coherencies to examine network evolution and co-evolution

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Jiang

Hammond

2015

Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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“…abstracts (Barnett and Jiang, 2017), news stories (Barnett et al, 2013), letters (Jang et al, 1994;Fitzgerald and Doerfel, 2004), essays (Kwon et al, 2009) or speeches (Doerfel and Connaughton, 2009). Two words are said to co-occur if they are both present within the unit.…”

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A comparison of three methods to determine the subject matter in textual data

Barnett

Calabrese

Ruiz

2023

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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This study compares three different methods commonly employed for the determination and interpretation of the subject matter of large corpuses of textual data. The methods reviewed are: (1) topic modeling, (2) community or group detection, and (3) cluster analysis of semantic networks. Two different datasets related to health topics were gathered from Twitter posts to compare the methods. The first dataset includes 16,138 original tweets concerning HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) from April 3, 2019 to April 3, 2020. The second dataset is comprised of 12,613 tweets about childhood vaccination from July 1, 2018 to October 15, 2018. Our findings suggest that the separate “topics” suggested by semantic networks (community detection) and/or cluster analysis (Ward's method) are more clearly identified than the topic modeling results. Topic modeling produced more subjects, but these tended to overlap. This study offers a better understanding of how results may vary based on method to determine subject matter chosen.

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An examination of the relationship between international telecommunication networks, terrorism and global news coverage

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

A mixture model of global internet capacity distributions

A mixture model of global internet capacity distributions

Using coherencies to examine network evolution and co-evolution

A comparison of three methods to determine the subject matter in textual data

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