Media landscape in Twitter: A world of new conventions and political diversity

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• Jisun An (University of Cambridge)
• Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00
• FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

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We present a preliminary but groundbreaking study of the media landscape of Twitter. We use public data on whom follows who to uncover common behaviour in media consumption, the relationship between various classes of media, and the diversity of media content which social links may bring. Our analysis shows that there is a non-negligible amount of indirect media exposure, either through friends who follow particular media sources, or via retweeted messages. We show that the indirect media exposure expands the political diversity of news to which users are exposed to a surprising extent, increasing the range by between 60-98%. These results are valuable because they have not been readily available to traditional media, and they can help predict how we will read news, and how publishers will interact with us in the future.

This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar series.

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