Factors Influencing International News Flow

Kariel, Herbert G.; Rosenvall, Lynn A.

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“…Previous studies suggested a number of reasons for the prominence of countries in the news, including their size, population (Golan, 2008), economy, extent and balance of trade (Castells, 2000;Herman & McChesney, 1997;Wu, 2000), military power (Chang, Himelboim, & Dong, 2009;Chang, Lau, & Hao, 2000;Chang & Lee, 1992;Kim & Barnett, 1996), and the spread of their languages (Chang, Shoemaker, & Brendlinger, 1987;Kariel & Rosenvall, 1984). In the case of Israel and Palestine, these factors cannot explain their high prominence in the news sites of other countries.…”

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The footprint of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in online world news: The puzzle of salience

Segev

Blondheim

2010

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

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The footprint of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in online world news: The puzzle of salience

Segev

Blondheim

2010

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

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“…In contrast, Charles et al (1979) found out that coverage of individual countries of equatorial and lower Africa in the New York Times correlated highly with US trade with those countries (correlations between .36 and .84 in different years) and Kariel and Rosenvall (1984) found out that the correlation between Canadian trade and foreign news in Canadian newspapers was as high as .586 but a similar correlation could not be found in the US newspapers. On the contrary, Ahern found out that increases in GNP, trade and the scope of political dialogue all produced increases in a nation's coverage in elite US newspapers.…”

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Foreign News and Foreign Trade

Pietiläinen

2006

International Communication Gazette

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This article presents the results of a search for relationships between news and trade in 33 countries on the basis of data from the 1995 international news flow study. The results prove that the links between trade and news are high in the majority of the countries studied, but there are some important exceptions, like the countries with a unilateral trade flow and a culturally oriented news service (Kuwait), large countries (the US, Russia) and many developing countries. The correlation between news and trade is highest in small industrial countries that are dependent on foreign trade and in which the structure of foreign news differs from the universal structure of foreign news. The comparison of the historical change in news flows in a given country with its international trade indicates that the change in the geographic distribution of foreign trade has an impact on the change in news flows.

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“…Population of countries has been identified as an important predictor of international news flow (Kariel & Rosenvall, 1984). Countries with larger populations have more individuals to become the focus of news coverage, more political influence, and more people who are engaged in creating and using web sites.…”

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What’s on the Web—And What’s Not

Tankard¹,

Royal

2005

Social Science Computer Review

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Many students (and some faculty members) seem to act as if the World Wide Web contains all of human knowledge. One indication of this phenomenon is the increasing reliance on web sites by students for research purposes. This study challenges this thinking by examining variation in the amount of information on the web on several dimensions: historical time, completeness of general information, extent of information about different countries, and extent of coverage of corporations. A second phase of the study explored several predictors of amount of information on the web for these same dimensions. The predictors were time, importance of information, population (for countries), and annual revenue (for corporations). Examining the role of the predictors takes a first step toward formulating a theory that explains the content of the web.A lthough many users act as if the World Wide Web is a repository of all human knowledge, it is apparent that web content has its gaps and biases. This article explores the extent of availability of information on the web on several dimensions. A second phase of the study tries to identify some predictors of the variation in this availability of information.Statements by numerous authors illustrate the tendency to think that the web contains all human knowledge. One survey reported 93% of a student sample said finding information online made more sense than going to a library (Troll, 2001). The same report suggested that students are "enamored of the Web. In many cases, if the information is not available on the Web, it does not exist for them." It is not just students who think the web may contain all knowledge or who may be approaching that point. An article on the web as a so-called superbrain stated, "We can safely assume that in the following years virtually the whole of human knowledge will be made available electronically over the networks" (Heylighten, 1995).This study will challenge these notions by making systematic measurements of the amount of information on the web on several important dimensions. A second phase of the study will attempt to identify factors that predict the amount of information on the web on these dimensions.This research study had two major purposes. The first purpose is to investigate the amount of information on the web at various points along selected dimensions. In a sense, this effort begins to map the contents of the web. The second purpose is to identify some factors that help predict, on specific dimensions, the amount of information to be found on the web. Identifying these predictive factors would move us closer to a theoretical understanding of why some information appears on the web and other information does not.

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Factors Influencing International News Flow

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