TY - GEN
T1 - What we read, what we search
T2 - 27th International World Wide Web, WWW 2018
AU - Kwak, Haewoon
AU - An, Jisun
AU - Salminen, Joni
AU - Jung, Soon Gyo
AU - Jansen, Bernard J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee), published under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License.
PY - 2018/4/10
Y1 - 2018/4/10
N2 - We investigate the alignment of international attention of news media organizations within 193 countries with the expressed international interests of the public within those same countries from March 7, 2016 to April 14, 2017. We collect fourteen months of longitudinal data of online news from Unfiltered News and web search volume data from Google Trends and build a multiplex network of media attention and public attention in order to study its structural and dynamic properties. Structurally, the media attention and the public attention are both similar and different depending on the resolution of the analysis. For example, we find that 63.2% of the country-specific media and the public pay attention to different countries, but local attention flow patterns, which are measured by network motifs, are very similar. We also show that there are strong regional similarities with both media and public attention that is only disrupted by significantly major worldwide incidents (e.g., Brexit). Using Granger causality, we show that there are a substantial number of countries where media attention and public attention are dissimilar by topical interest. Our findings show that the media and public attention toward specific countries are often at odds, indicating that the public within these countries may be ignoring their country-specific news outlets and seeking other online sources to address their media needs and desires.
AB - We investigate the alignment of international attention of news media organizations within 193 countries with the expressed international interests of the public within those same countries from March 7, 2016 to April 14, 2017. We collect fourteen months of longitudinal data of online news from Unfiltered News and web search volume data from Google Trends and build a multiplex network of media attention and public attention in order to study its structural and dynamic properties. Structurally, the media attention and the public attention are both similar and different depending on the resolution of the analysis. For example, we find that 63.2% of the country-specific media and the public pay attention to different countries, but local attention flow patterns, which are measured by network motifs, are very similar. We also show that there are strong regional similarities with both media and public attention that is only disrupted by significantly major worldwide incidents (e.g., Brexit). Using Granger causality, we show that there are a substantial number of countries where media attention and public attention are dissimilar by topical interest. Our findings show that the media and public attention toward specific countries are often at odds, indicating that the public within these countries may be ignoring their country-specific news outlets and seeking other online sources to address their media needs and desires.
KW - Multiplex network
KW - News coverage
KW - Web search
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073964182&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3178876.3186137
DO - 10.1145/3178876.3186137
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85073964182
T3 - The Web Conference 2018 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2018
SP - 893
EP - 902
BT - The Web Conference 2018 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2018
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 23 April 2018 through 27 April 2018
ER -