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.
Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Center for Excellence in Social Science, University of Warsaw（社会科学研究卓越中心，华沙大学）；Department of Communication, University of California, Davis（传播学系，加州大学戴维斯分校）；Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw（数学与计算建模跨学科中心，华沙大学）
Inspecting Interactions: Online News Media Synergies in Social Media
社交媒体的日益普及从根本上改变了新闻内容的传播方式，包括新层面的互动尝试。到目前为止，传统的新闻媒体，如报纸，电视和广播已经适应了他们的活动，通过利用社交媒体，博客，网站等在线新闻媒体。本文提供了一些洞察到全球流行的新闻媒体的社交媒体存在。尽管事实上，这些大型新闻媒体通过社会媒体环境传播内容在很大程度上，很少有人知道的新闻项目的生产者，供应商和消费者在社会媒体的新闻媒体社区，为了更好地了解这些互动，这项工作的目的是分析新闻项目在两个大型社会媒体，Twitter和Facebook。为此，我们收集了48家新闻媒体在Twitter和Facebook上发布的所有帖子，使用152 K tweets和80 K Facebook帖子的数据集进行描述性和预测性分析。我们探索了一组在社交媒体中自己创建内容的新闻媒体，那些将新闻发布到其他新闻媒体的媒体，以及那些从其他新闻媒体消费新闻内容和/或共享副本的媒体。我们提出了一个预测模型，以增加新闻媒体的普及读者的基础上的帖子数量，追随者数量和互动的数量在新闻媒体社区内进行。研究结果表明，新闻媒体应分散自身的内容，首先在社交媒体上发布，以成为受欢迎的新闻媒体，并获得更多的新闻读者对其新闻项目的吸引力。
MM-Claims: A Dataset for Multimodal Claim Detection in Social Media
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology（莱布尼茨科技信息中心（TIB））；L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover（汉诺威莱布尼茨大学L3S研究中心）；Jozef Stefan Institute（约瑟夫·斯特凡研究所）
