In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that an important force behind the collapse in advertising revenue experienced by newspapers in the past decade is the greater consumer switching facilitated by online consumption of news. We introduce a model of the market for advertising on news media

updates per day, millions of tags in photos, news articles or blogs. Being able to identify information items that gather much attention in such a real time information collective is a challenging task. In this paper, we consider the problem of early online identifica-tion of items that gather a lot

of the public sphere, with a specific focus on how these submissions might address shortcomings identified in the literature about the ability of the internet, but of news commenting forums in particular, to serve as an extension of the public sphere. Four main themes emerged in the submissions: a need to (1

media, especially print newspapers vis-à-vis. the new media in Malaysia. We believe that the layout of newspapers here may change, but the content is still in the form of news. Even though the conventional media have their own online versions, they have not fully embraced the new technology. Even

ABSTRACT: The global diffusion of the Internet has enabled the distribution of informative content through dynamic media such as RSS feeds and video blogs. At the same time, the decreasing cost of electronic devices has increased the pervasive availability of the same informative content

Princeton online Dictionary, Wordnet, defines Google as 1) noun; “a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search ” and 2) verb; “to search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine

1.1. Social media are online services that allow users to generate and share information. Their rapid growth over the past five years has led to a new era in web-based communication often referred to as the “Social Web”. Their effect has been to transform the Web from a place of one

visible information about the target's interests and favorite media, as is customary on Facebook. Thus, given the large amount of common, neutral information about the target against which the small manipulations in friends' photos and wall comments appeared, small effects on the target

-paper texts: If someone sent me a paper reprint, I would email them to ask if they didn't perchance have an on-line version. Why? Not because I find the current generation of VDU's any more appetising to look at than you do, but because of the quote/comment (Q/C) capability. I had become addicted

The use of blogs to track and comment on real world (political, news, entertainment) events is growing. Similarly, as more individuals start relying on the Web as their primary information source and as more traditional media outlets try reaching consumers through alternative venues, the number