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Understanding Online News Behaviors

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Jordan Wirfs-Brock,

Melissa BicaAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: 590, Pages 1 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300820

Published: 02 May 2019 Publication History

Abstract

The news landscape has been changing dramatically over the past few years. Whereas news once came from a small set of highly edited sources, now people can find news from thousands of news sites online, through a variety of channels such as web search, social media, email newsletters, or direct browsing. We set out to understand how Americans read news online using web browser logs collected from 174 diverse participants. We found that 20% of all news sessions started with a web search, that 16% started from social media, that 61% of news sessions only involved a single news domain, and that 47% of our participants read news from both sides of the political spectrum. We conclude with key implications for online news, social media, and search sites to encourage more balanced news browsing.

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Understanding Online News Behaviors
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Media arts
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Social media
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Empirical studies in HCI

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