Newsblog relevance: Applying relevance criteria to news-related blogs

Abstract

Blogs, and particularly newsblogs, are receiving increased attention for their role in uncovering important or underdeveloped aspects of news stories. This research was an attempt to explore relevance criteria as it applies to users of newsblogs.An anonymous online questionnaire presented individuals with a list of established user relevance criteria, ranking the importance of each characteristic in determining a newsblog's quality.

Who Are More Active and Influential on Twitter?

“…This was echoed by several other studies. For instance, Goodrum et al (2010) found that people prefer using social media such as Twitter to obtain news information due to its currency. In line with this, Hu et al (2012) observed that Twitter broke the news on Osama Bin Laden's death before the mainstream media.…”

“…A study by also found that news messages was forwarded 15.5 times on average, thereby substantially increasing the reach of their audience. Yet, at the same time, Twitter fosters the dissemination of short fragments of information from a diversity of news sources, both official and unofficial ones (Goodrum et al, 2010;Hermida, 2010). This is deemed to have challenged the conventional ways of news dissemination that are mainly controlled by official, authoritative news sources (e.g., CNN, New York Times), and undermined the gatekeeping function of journalists in determining the what and when of news content dissemination (Hermida, 2010).…”