Do News Actually “Find Me”? Using Digital Behavioral Data to Study the News-Finds-Me Phenomenon

Haim, Mario; Breuer, Johannes; Stier, Sebastian

doi:10.1177/20563051211033820

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“…Online tracking encompasses a set of techniques used to trace the usage of digital media and to analyze it for research purposes (Wieland et al, 2018). Online information tracking has already provided nuanced insights into areas as diverse as misinformation exposure (Guess et al, 2018) or political attitude development (Stier et al, 2020b), at times questioning previous understandings of online political behavior (Guess, 2021; Haim et al, 2021).…”

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Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research

Gil‐López

Christner

León

et al. 2023

Social Science Computer Review

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This paper offers a critical look at the promises and drawbacks of a popular, novel data collection technique—online tracking—from the point of view of sample composition. Using data from two large-scale studies about political attitudes and information consumption behavior carried out in Germany and Switzerland, we find that the likelihood of participation in a tracking study at several critical dropout points is systematically related to the gender, age, and education of participants, with men, young, and more educated participants being less likely to dropout of the studies. Our findings also show that these patterns are incremental, as changes in sample composition accumulate over successive study stages. Political interest and ideology were also significantly related to the likelihood of participation in tracking research. The study explores some of the most common concerns associated with tracking research leading to non-participation, finding that they also differ across demographic groups. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research

Gil‐López

Christner

León

et al. 2023

Social Science Computer Review

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“…Even though newspapers still present a prime source of information in Switzerland [42], the chosen focus, as well as the fact that multi-modal sources and digital channels, such as online news or social media, are becoming more relevant sources of information (especially for younger audiences) limit the potential for transfer of our findings to other contexts and formats. To create a more comprehensive picture, it would also be interesting to link data on news coverage to digital behavioral data (e.g., information seeking, actual consumption of content) [43,44]. This approach would also enable researchers to infer the impact of news coverage on people's COVID-19-related beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.…”

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Covering the Crisis: Evolution of Key Topics and Actors in COVID-19 News Coverage in Switzerland

Ort¹,

Rohrbach²,

Diviani

et al. 2023

Int J Public Health

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Objectives: The goal of this study is to map the share of COVID-related news articles over time, to investigate key subtopics and their evolution throughout the pandemic, and to identify key actors and their relationship with different aspects of the discourse around the pandemic.Methods: This study uses a large-scale automated content analysis to conduct a within-country comparison of news articles (N = 1,171,114) from two language regions of Switzerland during the first 18 months of the pandemic.Results: News media coverage of the pandemic largely mirrors key epidemiological developments in terms of the volume and content of coverage. Key actors in COVID-related reporting tend to be included in news articles that relate to their respective area of expertise.Conclusion: Balanced news coverage of the pandemic facilitates effective dissemination of pandemic-related information by health authorities.

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“…When exposed to news on social media, people respond in different ways and these responses also vary by situation and context. Haim et al (2021) argue that to understand how people access and engage with news on digital platforms, we need to distinguish between active and passive modes of news use and develop measures that can differentiate different types of news exposure. This approach would allow us to further research the role of social media in the phenomenon of news engagement through news exposure.…”

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Incidental News Exposure on Facebook and Its Relation to Trust in News

Park

Lee

2023

Social Media + Society

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There has been a growing interest in the impact of incidental news exposure on audiences as using social media as a source of news is becoming increasingly common practice. This article examines how this may have an impact on the trust in news through an analysis of Facebook news users in three countries—Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States ( n = 1,296). While trust in general news is no different between those who access news intentionally or incidentally, incidental exposure has a negative relationship to the trust in news on social media. This finding is more prominent among those who use social media as their primary source of news. Among social media news users, those who actively access news have a much higher trust in news they find on social media compared with incidental news users. This gap implies that there are a variety of contexts in which a social media user is exposed to news and a nuanced understanding of the context of incidental versus intentional exposure is needed to fully explain how incidental exposure to news may affect audiences’ trust in news.

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Do News Actually “Find Me”? Using Digital Behavioral Data to Study the News-Finds-Me Phenomenon

Cited by 12 publications

References 42 publications

Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research

Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research

Covering the Crisis: Evolution of Key Topics and Actors in COVID-19 News Coverage in Switzerland

Incidental News Exposure on Facebook and Its Relation to Trust in News

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