TY - GEN
T1 - Using tags for breaking news elicitation
AU - Chua, Alton Y.K.
AU - Goh, Dion Hoe Lian
PY - 2009/12/16
Y1 - 2009/12/16
N2 - The reduction in news cycle time coupled with high Internet penetration have resulted in a phenomenon known as 'citizen journalism' where ordinary people who are non-journalists collect, analyze and disseminate news pieces. This paper leverages tags drawn from iReport, an active citizen journalism Website to elicit breaking news. The goal is to examine the coverage and effectiveness of news elicitation in iReport vis-a-vis those reported in the mainstream media. The data collection procedure involved manually culling major news events reported in mainstream news sources between April 8 and June 6 2008. In parallel, tags from iReport postings were extracted during the same study period. Tags were analyzed using correlational analysis and relative frequencies. Results show that out of the 10 major news events reported in mainstream sources, five could be elicited from tags in iReport. Implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
AB - The reduction in news cycle time coupled with high Internet penetration have resulted in a phenomenon known as 'citizen journalism' where ordinary people who are non-journalists collect, analyze and disseminate news pieces. This paper leverages tags drawn from iReport, an active citizen journalism Website to elicit breaking news. The goal is to examine the coverage and effectiveness of news elicitation in iReport vis-a-vis those reported in the mainstream media. The data collection procedure involved manually culling major news events reported in mainstream news sources between April 8 and June 6 2008. In parallel, tags from iReport postings were extracted during the same study period. Tags were analyzed using correlational analysis and relative frequencies. Results show that out of the 10 major news events reported in mainstream sources, five could be elicited from tags in iReport. Implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICDIM.2009.5356780
DO - 10.1109/ICDIM.2009.5356780
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:76249132078
SN - 9781424442539
T3 - 4th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2009
SP - 171
EP - 176
BT - 4th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2009
T2 - 4th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2009
Y2 - 1 November 2009 through 4 November 2009
ER -