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WhatCountsAsWeakTie
No full textData and scripts necessary to replicate the analyses reported in the paper:
Mukerjee, Subhayan; Yang, Tian; Stadler, Georg; and González-Bailón, Sandra, What Counts as a Weak Tie? A Comparison of Filtering Techniques to Analyze Co-Exposure to News (April 8, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3368603
WhatCountsAsWeakTie
No full textData and scripts necessary to replicate the analyses reported in the paper:
Mukerjee, Subhayan; Yang, Tian; Stadler, Georg; and González-Bailón, Sandra, What Counts as a Weak Tie? A Comparison of Filtering Techniques to Analyze Co-Exposure to News (April 8, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3368603
Metrics in Action: How Social Media Metrics Shape News Production on Facebook
No full textThis project contains the data files necessary to replicate the analyses and figures reported in this paper:
Mukerjee, Subhayan, Yang, Tian, and Peng, Yilang. (2023). Metrics in Action: How social media metrics shape news production on Facebook. Journal of Communication, 73(3).
Aggregated data used in the analysis are available on this OSF registry.
The pre-print is available at https://osf.io/vcp69/
Replication scripts are available in the github repository here: https://github.com/wrahool/metrics-in-actio
Metrics in Action: How Social Media Metrics Shape News Production on Facebook
No full textThis project contains the data files necessary to replicate the analyses and figures reported in this paper:
Mukerjee, Subhayan, Yang, Tian, and Peng, Yilang. (2023). Metrics in Action: How social media metrics shape news production on Facebook. Journal of Communication, 73(3).
Aggregated data used in the analysis are available on this OSF registry.
The pre-print is available at https://osf.io/vcp69/
Replication scripts are available in the github repository here: https://github.com/wrahool/metrics-in-actio
Metrics in Action: How Social Media Metrics Shape News Production on Facebook
No full textThis project contains the data files necessary to replicate the analyses and figures reported in this paper:
Mukerjee, Subhayan, Yang, Tian, and Peng, Yilang. (2023). Metrics in Action: How social media metrics shape news production on Facebook. Journal of Communication, 73(3).
Aggregated data used in the analysis are available on this OSF registry.
The pre-print is available at https://osf.io/vcp69/
Replication scripts are available in the github repository here: https://github.com/wrahool/metrics-in-actio
News Reading Publics And Audience Fragmentation: Evidence From Online India (2014-2018)
No full textA significant body of literature has emerged in recent years to understand large scale patterns of audience behavior in the context of news consumption and exposure to political information. A majority of these studies, however, have often ignored the global South, including India, the world’s largest democracy. As a result, we know very little about how Indians consume news, and the implications this may have for the political process. This dissertation aims to fill this gap by making two major contributions. The first contribution is empirical: the dissertation offers novel empirical evidence of the structure of online news audiences in India by analyzing large scale web-browsing data. The second contribution is methodological: to explain the observed patterns, the dissertation proposes a conceptual framework that synthesizes existing theoretical frameworks in the context of news consumption. Overall, this dissertation proposes an analytical approach to understanding news consumption that contributes comparative evidence and helps in cumulative theory-building.
The analyses discussed here show strong evidence that the online Indian news consumption landscape is segregated along linguistic lines. However, national outlets in the English language are responsible for unifying a culturally diverse digital population and reducing audience fragmentation. This is in stark contrast to the overwhelming popularity that vernacular news outlets have in India, offline. I also find that digital-born outlets have not succeeded in contesting the hegemony of legacy media – a finding that runs counter to many optimistic claims about the rise of digital media outlets in India. I show that legacy media and English media have gradually become more popular over time, at the cost of digital-born media and vernacular media, respectively. Finally, I find interesting differences in audience migration patterns: vernacular audiences migrating to national media significantly prefer legacy outlets to digital-born outlets. Vernacular audiences migrating to international media, show no such preference.
The dissertation also discusses the socio-political implications of these findings and charts the way forward for future research on India, as well as news consumption research, more generally, from a comparative perspective
A systematic comparison of community detection algorithms for measuring selective exposure in co-exposure networks
No full textAbstract The use of community detection techniques for understanding audience fragmentation and selective exposure to information has received substantial scholarly attention in recent years. However, there exists no systematic comparison, that seeks to identify which of the many community detection algorithms are the best suited for studying these dynamics. In this paper, I address this question by proposing a formal mathematical model for audience co-exposure networks by simulating audience behavior in an artificial media environment. I show how a variety of synthetic audience overlap networks can be generated by tuning specific parameters, that control various aspects of the media environment and individual behavior. I then use a variety of community detection algorithms to characterize the level of audience fragmentation in these synthetic networks and compare their performances for different combinations of the model parameters. I demonstrate how changing the manner in which co-exposure networks are constructed significantly improves the performances of some of these algorithms. Finally, I validate these findings using a novel empirical data-set of large-scale browsing behavior. The contributions of this research are two-fold: first, it shows that two specific algorithms, FastGreedy and Multilevel are the best suited for measuring selective exposure patterns in co-exposure networks. Second, it demonstrates the use of formal modeling for informing analytical choices for better capturing complex social phenomena
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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