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Newspapers vs. blogs: Who gets the scoop?

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Blogs and formal news sources both monitor the events of the day, but with substantially different frames of reference. In this paper, we report on experiments comparing over 500,000 blog postings with the contents of 66 daily newspapers over the same six week period. We compare the prevalence of popular topics in the blogspace and news, and in particular analyze lead/lag relationships in frequency time series of 197 entities in the two corpora. The correlation between news and blog references proved substantially higher when adjusting for lead/lag shifts, although the direction of these shifts varied for different entities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs - Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report
Pages117-124
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 AAAI Spring Symposium - Stanford, CA, United States
Duration: Mar 27 2006Mar 29 2006

Publication series

NameAAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
VolumeSS-06-03

Conference

Conference2006 AAAI Spring Symposium
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityStanford, CA
Period03/27/0603/29/06

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