Social media is becoming more and more integrated in the
distribution and consumption of news. How is news in social
media different from mainstream news? This paper presents a
comparative analysis covering a span of 17 months and hundreds
of news events, using a method that combines automatic
and manual annotations. We focus on climate change,
a topic that is frequently present in the news through a number
of arguments, from current practices and causes (e.g. fracking,
CO2 emissions) to consequences and solutions (e.g. extreme
weather, electric cars). The coverage that these different
aspects receive is often dependent on how they are
framed—typically by mainstream media. Yet, evidence suggests
an existing gap between what the news media publishes
online and what the general public shares in social
media. Through the analysis of a series of events, including
awareness campaigns, natural disasters, governmental meetings
and publications, among others, we uncover differences
in terms of the triggers, actions, and news values that are
prevalent in both types of media. This methodology can be
extended to other important topics present in the news.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 olteanu2015comparing
%A Olteanu, Alexandra
%A Castillo, Carlos
%A Diakopoulos, Nicholas
%A Aberer, Karl
%B Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
%D 2015
%K crisis events gdelt k3 news twitter
%N EPFL-CONF-211214
%T Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change
%U http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM15/paper/download/10583/10512/
%X Social media is becoming more and more integrated in the
distribution and consumption of news. How is news in social
media different from mainstream news? This paper presents a
comparative analysis covering a span of 17 months and hundreds
of news events, using a method that combines automatic
and manual annotations. We focus on climate change,
a topic that is frequently present in the news through a number
of arguments, from current practices and causes (e.g. fracking,
CO2 emissions) to consequences and solutions (e.g. extreme
weather, electric cars). The coverage that these different
aspects receive is often dependent on how they are
framed—typically by mainstream media. Yet, evidence suggests
an existing gap between what the news media publishes
online and what the general public shares in social
media. Through the analysis of a series of events, including
awareness campaigns, natural disasters, governmental meetings
and publications, among others, we uncover differences
in terms of the triggers, actions, and news values that are
prevalent in both types of media. This methodology can be
extended to other important topics present in the news.
@inproceedings{olteanu2015comparing,
abstract = {Social media is becoming more and more integrated in the
distribution and consumption of news. How is news in social
media different from mainstream news? This paper presents a
comparative analysis covering a span of 17 months and hundreds
of news events, using a method that combines automatic
and manual annotations. We focus on climate change,
a topic that is frequently present in the news through a number
of arguments, from current practices and causes (e.g. fracking,
CO2 emissions) to consequences and solutions (e.g. extreme
weather, electric cars). The coverage that these different
aspects receive is often dependent on how they are
framed—typically by mainstream media. Yet, evidence suggests
an existing gap between what the news media publishes
online and what the general public shares in social
media. Through the analysis of a series of events, including
awareness campaigns, natural disasters, governmental meetings
and publications, among others, we uncover differences
in terms of the triggers, actions, and news values that are
prevalent in both types of media. This methodology can be
extended to other important topics present in the news.},
added-at = {2016-02-07T13:55:11.000+0100},
author = {Olteanu, Alexandra and Castillo, Carlos and Diakopoulos, Nicholas and Aberer, Karl},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b634d1ad907a5700a6fd3b0e6b678a91/asmelash},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
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keywords = {crisis events gdelt k3 news twitter},
number = {EPFL-CONF-211214},
timestamp = {2016-02-07T13:55:57.000+0100},
title = {Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change},
url = {http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM15/paper/download/10583/10512/},
year = 2015
}