Looking for Efficiency: How Online News Structure and Emotional Tone Influence Processing Time and Memory

DeAngelo, Tessa I.; Yegiyan, Narine S.

doi:10.1177/1077699018792272

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“…Furthermore, prior research has indicated that interactivity encourages the audience to become more engaged in their news consuming experiences (Chung & Nah, 2009). Moreover, the study's findings regarding the evolution of this writing pattern are consistent with DeAngelo and Yegiyan (2019). They demonstrated that the development of news writing in online news portals influences both reading time and memory.…”

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confidence: 71%

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The Rise of a Pandemic-related Writing Style in the News Media

Kamarulbaid¹,

Abas²,

Omar³

et al. 2021

IJARBSS

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

“…The style of news writing is an essential component in the field of journalism. Yang et al (2019) shows that linguistic features and news writing structure (DeAngelo & Yegiyan, 2019) significantly impact news quality. The internet and technology have changed the form of news writing in digital news portals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rise of a Pandemic-related Writing Style in the News Media

Kamarulbaid¹,

Abas²,

Omar³

et al. 2021

IJARBSS

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“…When authors write news articles, they often adopt the inverted pyramid style ( DeAngelo & Yegiyan, 2019 ; Pottker, 2003 ), in which the essential and most attention-grabbing elements are introduced first in the article. Accordingly, in this section we address RQ1 , that is to test if the lead paragraphs of the articles can simply and sufficiently be used as a search query instead of the whole article for the retrieval of the background links.…”

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Unsupervised query reduction for efficient yet effective news background linking

Essam¹,

Elsayed²

2023

PeerJ Computer Science

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In this article, we study efficient techniques to tackle the news background linking problem, in which an online reader seeks background knowledge about a given article to better understand its context. Recently, this problem attracted many researchers, especially in the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) community. Surprisingly, the most effective method to date uses the entire input news article as a search query in an ad-hoc retrieval approach to retrieve the background links. In a scenario where the lookup for background links is performed online, this method becomes inefficient, especially if the search scope is big such as the Web, due to the relatively long generated query, which results in a long response time. In this work, we evaluate different unsupervised approaches for reducing the input news article to a much shorter, hence efficient, search query, while maintaining the retrieval effectiveness. We conducted several experiments using the Washington Post dataset, released specifically for the news background linking problem. Our results show that a simple statistical analysis of the article using a recent keyword extraction technique reaches an average of 6.2× speedup in query response time over the full article approach, with no significant difference in effectiveness. Moreover, we found that further reduction of the search terms can be achieved by eliminating relatively low TF-IDF values from the search queries, yielding even more efficient retrieval of 13.3× speedup, while still maintaining the retrieval effectiveness. This makes our approach more suitable for practical online scenarios. Our study is the first to address the efficiency of news background linking systems. We, therefore, release our source code to promote research in that direction.

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“…One example that captures the influence of the cost difference in attention, time, and literacy is news sharing. Communication theories and research pointed out that serious news that contains detailed information, credible source, and complete logic frame requires more cognitive resources (Sterrett et al, 2019), time (DeAngelo & Yegiyan, 2019), and literacy (Tully et al, 2020) to process compared to the news with brief content, shocking titles, and social gossip. On the other hand, people are more likely to connect with those that share similar types of news due to selective exposure to reinforce their preference (Messing & Westwood, 2014).…”

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Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations

Zhong

Hilbert

Frey

2022

Social Science Computer Review

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Theorists since Marx, Bourdieu, and DiMaggio have asked how individual choices on cultural preference interact with collective social network structure. The rise of social media in today’s communication landscape motivates us to take a closer look at the involved dynamics. We designed an agent-based model to explore how different behavioral principles for cultural choice and communicative affiliation affect (1) collective consumption patterns, (2) social segregation, and (3) resilience of the emergent dynamic during exogenous distributions. We analyze the influence of individual agency on network structure, and vice versa, by simulating agents who pursue elite or popular culture, while communicating with others based on homophily or randomness. Our method allows us to go beyond specific constellations and explore the realm of theoretically possible combinations. We then used an exogenous disturbance on elite culture cost to test the resilience of social network structure. We found that only in societies where economic factors drive cultural consumption, increased access to elite culture can lead to reorganization in the social network and reduce segregation between different social groups. This is because the disturbance on consumption provides agents opportunities to connect with other social groups and opens a window for social mixing. We end by discussing how our model allows us to inform a diverse set of empirical research questions, including the cultural markets of social media, the digital divide, and the split between free misinformation and established news outlets.

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Looking for Efficiency: How Online News Structure and Emotional Tone Influence Processing Time and Memory

Cited by 10 publications

References 47 publications

The Rise of a Pandemic-related Writing Style in the News Media

The Rise of a Pandemic-related Writing Style in the News Media

Unsupervised query reduction for efficient yet effective news background linking

Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations

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