Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2017

Abstract

The objective of this study is to assess the longitudinal trends of media similarity and dissimilarity on the international scale. As news value has well-established political, cultural, and economic consequences, the degree to which media coverage and content is converging across countries has implications for international relations. To study this convergence, we use the daily data of the 100 topics that were over-reported in each country, compared to other countries, from March 7 to October 9, 2016. The results of this analysis indicate that two complementary patterns–globalization and domestication–explain the media attention across the countries. We conclude that this attention can be driven not only by geographical closeness but also by more complex dimensions, such as historical relationships. Also, although a group of countries often have common media attention, their similarity level depends on time and topic.

Keywords

Domestication, Globalization, Media attention, Media convergence, Tensor factorization, Unfiltered News

Discipline

Numerical Analysis and Computation

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 13-15

First Page

159

Last Page

168

ISBN

9783319672557

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_14

Publisher

Springer Verlag

City or Country

Switzerland

Additional URL

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_14

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