Topics in Mainstream Media: A Dynamic Network Visualization

My doctoral dissertation (defended a few months back) studies a dynamic network of news outlets and the topics they cover over time. It implements a measure of media fragmentation and uses actor-based modeling to evaluate the impact of economic, political, organizational, and structural forces on certain properties of the media agenda. [...]

2018-06-22T00:17:50-04:00February 12th, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Actors and Links in the Media System: Taking a Network Perspective

Exploring the structure of relationships between news organizations, issues, and audience members is key to understanding the media system.  The paper I'm posting here (just presented at ICA 2011, Boston) looks into a range of network types available to media researchers: inter-organizational, semantic, issue, hyperlink, and social graphs. It discusses important predictors [...]

2018-06-22T00:53:15-04:00May 30th, 2011|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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