Regionalzeitungen aus dem Ruhrgebiet im Bundestagswahlkampf 1986/87. Eine Themen- und Tendenzanalyse

Koszyk, Kurt; Prause, Jürgen

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-96181-5_19

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“…Since the 1950's a number of studies have investigated journalism balance and news coverage on newspapers and television using content analysis to show how newspapers provided more coverage to specific events (Klein and Maccoby 1954). This method was consistently deployed in the following decades by Hart (1966), McCombs and Shaw (1972), Koszyk and Prause (1987), and Kamerer and Bressers (1998)likely due to the technical challenges involved in retrieving and analyzing large-scale, quantitative data from different news outlets. However, the recent availability of online news articles and social network data, which can be retrieved from standardized, public APIs, provided avenues for quantitative research at unprecedented scales.…”

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2014

Journalism Studies

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This paper compares the volume of news articles per section in newspapers and social media platforms. To this end, two weeks of news articles were retrieved by querying the public Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of The New York Times and The Guardian and the diffusion of each article on social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Delicious, Pinterest, and StumbleUpon, was tracked. The results show significant differences in the topics emphasized by newspaper editors and social media users. While users of social media platforms favor opinion pieces, along with national, local, and world news, in sharp contrast the decision of news editors emphasized sports and the economy, but also entertainment and celebrity news. Common to social networking sites is the prevalence of items about arts, technology, and opinion pieces. Niche social networks like StumbleUpon and Delicious presented a greater volume of articles about science and technology, while Pinterest is mostly dedicated to fashion, arts, lifestyle, and entertainment. Twitter is the only social network to have presented a statistically significant correlation with the distribution of news items per section by The Guardian and The New York Times. The results of this study provide a bridge between journalism and audience research and present evidence of the differences between readership in social and legacy media.

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