Demographics of news sharing in the U.S. twittersphere

The widespread adoption and dissemination of online news through social media systems have been revolutionizing many segments of our society and ultimately our daily lives. In these systems, users can play a central role as they share content to their friends. Despite that, little is known about new...

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Main Authors: REIS, Julio C.S., KWAK, Haewoon, AN, Jisun, MESSIAS, Johnnatan, BENEVENUTO Fabrıcio.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-70922021-09-29T12:49:17Z Demographics of news sharing in the U.S. twittersphere REIS, Julio C.S. KWAK, Haewoon AN, Jisun MESSIAS, Johnnatan BENEVENUTO Fabrıcio., The widespread adoption and dissemination of online news through social media systems have been revolutionizing many segments of our society and ultimately our daily lives. In these systems, users can play a central role as they share content to their friends. Despite that, little is known about news spreaders in social media. In this paper, we provide the first of its kind in-depth characterization of news spreaders in social media. In particular, we investigate their demographics, what kind of content they share, and the audience they reach. Among our main findings, we show that males and white users tend to be more active in terms of sharing news, biasing the news audience to the interests of these demographic groups. Our results also quantify differences in interests of news sharing across demographics, which has implications for personalized news digests. 2017-07-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6089 info:doi/10.1145/3078714.3078734 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7092/viewcontent/3078714.3078734.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University online news demographics news sharing social media Twitter Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Social Media
institution Singapore Management University
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Singapore
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topic online news
demographics
news sharing
social media
Twitter
Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Social Media
spellingShingle online news
demographics
news sharing
social media
Twitter
Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Social Media
REIS, Julio C.S.
KWAK, Haewoon
AN, Jisun
MESSIAS, Johnnatan
BENEVENUTO Fabrıcio.,
Demographics of news sharing in the U.S. twittersphere
description The widespread adoption and dissemination of online news through social media systems have been revolutionizing many segments of our society and ultimately our daily lives. In these systems, users can play a central role as they share content to their friends. Despite that, little is known about news spreaders in social media. In this paper, we provide the first of its kind in-depth characterization of news spreaders in social media. In particular, we investigate their demographics, what kind of content they share, and the audience they reach. Among our main findings, we show that males and white users tend to be more active in terms of sharing news, biasing the news audience to the interests of these demographic groups. Our results also quantify differences in interests of news sharing across demographics, which has implications for personalized news digests.
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author REIS, Julio C.S.
KWAK, Haewoon
AN, Jisun
MESSIAS, Johnnatan
BENEVENUTO Fabrıcio.,
author_facet REIS, Julio C.S.
KWAK, Haewoon
AN, Jisun
MESSIAS, Johnnatan
BENEVENUTO Fabrıcio.,
author_sort REIS, Julio C.S.
title Demographics of news sharing in the U.S. twittersphere
title_short Demographics of news sharing in the U.S. twittersphere
title_full Demographics of news sharing in the U.S. twittersphere
title_fullStr Demographics of news sharing in the U.S. twittersphere
title_full_unstemmed Demographics of news sharing in the U.S. twittersphere
title_sort demographics of news sharing in the u.s. twittersphere
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2017
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6089
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7092/viewcontent/3078714.3078734.pdf
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