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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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 |
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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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