Quantifying and comparing web news portals’ article salience using the VoxPopuli tool

[EN] VoxPopuli tool enables quantification of absolute and relative salience of news articles published on daily news web portals. Obtained numerical values for the two types of salience enable direct comparison of audience impact of different news articles in specified time period. Absolute salienc...

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Autores: Bonacci, Duje, Jelinić, Antonija, Jurišić, Jelena, Vesnić-Alujević, Lucija
Formato: capítulo de livro
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/84782
Acesso em linha:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/84782
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:web data
internet data
big data
qca
pls
sem
conference
Descrição
Resumo:[EN] VoxPopuli tool enables quantification of absolute and relative salience of news articles published on daily news web portals. Obtained numerical values for the two types of salience enable direct comparison of audience impact of different news articles in specified time period. Absolute salience of a news article in a specified time period is determined as the total number of distinct readers who commented on the story in that period. Hence, articlesthat appear on web portals with larger audiences will in general be (absolutely) more salient as there are more potential commentators to comment on them. On the other hand, relative salience of a particular article during a particular time period is calculated as the quotient of a number of distinct readers who comented on that particular story and the number of all readers who in the same period commented on any news story published on the same news portal. As such relative salience will always be a number between 0 and 1, irrespective of the popularity of particular news portal, the (relative) salience of news stories on different news portals can be compared.