San Francisco Bay Area News Ecology

Hayreddin Ceker

Outline• Project Description• Methodology• Macro dimension• Meso dimension• Micro dimension

• Problems• Conclusion

Project Description

• communication and the expression- TV, Radio- Print publications

- Central source- Informative

Traditional Media

• Democratic and decentralized• The audience can contribute• Community to participation

and consumption

Networked Media INTERNET

Project Description

Use “Complex Networks” analysis to demonstrate transition from Traditional Media to Networked Media

Take snapshots of current ecosystem, San Francisco Bay AreaMacro dimension: News-to-news networkMeso dimension: Author-to-link networkMicro dimension: Commenter network

MethodologyMacro dimension: News-to-news network

http://www.local123gallery.com/

http://www.susanfelterart.com/Welcome.html

http://mimiplumb.com/

http://www.berkeleyside.com

Macro dimension

www.berkeleyside.com

www.socketsite.com

http://laurendo.wordpress.com/

Different subdomain

www.cnn.com/page2.html

www.cnn.com/page1.html

Same website

News-to-news Graph

www.cnn.com

7

www.berkeleyside.com

7

http://laurendo.wordpress.com/

3

www.socketsite.com

News-to-news NW• Inbound link #• Outbound link #• Central nodes• Corner nodes

Degree of leakage• Whether the Bay Area is still pointing mainly the websites

from the same area • Or the Internet has changed the way the local websites

behave• Categorizing Links• Categorize news sites if they match the seed site list• News sites out of the box

• Another implication of degree of leakage is to find out new source-like websites that the news benefit from.

MethodologyMeso dimension: Author-to-news network

Author-to-link NW• Bipartite graph

Tracey Taylor

Lauren Callahan

Richard Parks

http://mimiplumb.com

http://www.fellinirestaurant.net

Degree of authorDegree of websites

- which author linked websites more often- which web sites are referred more frequently

Methodology• Micro dimension – Commenter Network

Are Blackberries best bet for Berkeley in emergencies?

Berkeleyans move their money, and small banks benefit

Commenter NW

• Bipartite Graph• Links between commenters and news

Bruce

Nora

The Sharkey

Blackberry…

Banks…

• 1-node graph• How the commenters interact with each other

Bruce

The Sharkey

Nora

21

Problems in crawling• No standard structure of websites• Author• Comment • Commenters

• Old websites have huge amount of pages• Hard to crawl• Links to non-existing websites

• JavaScript• Advertisements• Media objects

Conclusion• Is news media transitioning because of new technologies like

it has in the past?

• How is the Internet affecting news outlets, journalists, and readers?

Hopefully, network theory and analysis can help find these answers

El Fin

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