What is the meaning of a news link?
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The document discusses the significance and functions of hyperlinks in news media, emphasizing their role in navigation, credibility enhancement, content sharing, and commercialization. It analyzes the different types of news links and their purposes, indicating that most links are navigational and that linking practices affect the construction of news front pages. The authors, David Ryfe and Donica Mensing, explore how understanding hyperlinks can provide insight into the structure and dynamics of online news networks.
What is the meaning of a news link?
- 1. What is the meaning of a news link? David Ryfe and Donica Mensing University of Nevada, Reno Prepared for presentation at IAMCR, Dublin, June 2013
- 2. Network analysis of the San Francisco Bay area news network
- 3. Community or colony: The case of online newspapers and the web. Riley et al 1999 Building frames link by link: The linking practices of blogs and news sites. Coddington, 2012 The international network structure of news media: An analysis of hyperlinks usage on news web sites. Himelboim 2010 The journalistic hyperlink. DeMaeyer 2010
- 4. In understanding what a hyperlink means, we need to look at what a hyperlink does. Halavais (2008)
- 5. Who is linking to what, where, when, and to what purpose.
- 6. Who Algorithm Staff (other than reporter) Reporter User What News Section News Story Web Page (general) Data Video / Photo Government Document Academic Report Blog Post Social Media Content User Comment A taxonomy of news links
- 7. Where Onsite Template section Story Post Social Media Platform Aggregation Tool Offsite Template section Story Post Social Media Platform Aggregation Tool When Permanent Weekly Daily Less Than Daily A taxonomy of news links (continued)
- 8. Help users find content Navigational Enhance credibility of news Citational Allow users to share content Social Generate revenue Commercial To what purpose
- 9. Most links are navigational
- 10. Most social links are outsourced
- 11. Front pages no longer constructed by editors
- 12. Personalization of links and content
- 13. Links are a form of power
- 15. Donica Mensing @donica [email protected] Academia.edu / Slideshare David Ryfe @dryfe [email protected]