{"id":121,"date":"2019-01-29T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/?p=121"},"modified":"2019-01-29T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:24:00","slug":"reading-reflection-1-01-28-raghu-srinivasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/2019\/01\/29\/reading-reflection-1-01-28-raghu-srinivasan\/","title":{"rendered":"[Reading Reflection 1] &#8211; [01\/28] &#8211; [Raghu, Srinivasan]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This paper was primarily about how Twitter was being used by\nnews producers and consumers, particularly in analyzing the differences between\nhow journalists and organizations in Arab and European English-speaking countries\nuse the platform. Through crawling thousands of tweets from various accounts, comparisons\nwere made between these groups based on a set of features. Some of the key conclusions\ndrawn are listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>News outlets tend to have a more official style\nand share more links than journalists on their accounts.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Journalists tend to target their communication\nand maintain a personal engagement with their audience. It\u2019s also found that\njournalists may be using Twitter to gather information. Organizations, however,\ntend to broadcast their tweets and avoid the personal engagement that journalists\npursue in their tweets.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Arab journalists prefer to broadcast their tweets\nmore than the average English journalist will. They also tend to be more\ndistinguishable compared to news consumers in the Arab world.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Print and radio journalists have a large number\nof differences between each other, whereas TV journalists tend to share\ncharacteristics with both groups.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Journalists who speak the same language but\nreside in different countries tend to share many similarities with each other. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reflection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have listed below a few of the lines that interested me in\nthe paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese\ntwo features perhaps suggest that people who want to get the news from Twitter\nexpect to find them in the timelines of the organizations more than from the\njournalists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This\nsuggestion based on the collected data did not surprise me at all, as\norganizations tend to be more well-known compared to journalists reporting\nsimilar information. Therefore, it would make sense that a larger majority of\npeople expect to find news in the timelines of organizations. Organizations also\nhave a greater chance of being verified compared to individual journalists. However,\nthis does make me ponder if journalists had broadcasted information or became verified\njust as often, <em>would users flock to their\ntimelines for gathering information? <\/em>Although journalists tend to have more\npersonal engagements on Twitter, I\u2019m curious as to whether or not users may decide\nto visit timelines of journalists to gather information if those accounts had\nappeared on their feed more often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe\nbroadcast communication behavior is evident for Arab journalists. They tweet\nmore than twice as much as the English ones, share 75% more links, and use 39%\nmore hashtags.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This statistic was interesting to me, as I\u2019m curious as to\nwhy Arab journalists broadcast their information more so than their English\ncounterparts. Could this have any doing with the fact that Arab journalists are\nmore distinguishable than news consumers? It\u2019s also interesting to me that Arab\njournalists are on Twitter more often, as I\u2019m interested in which regions of\nthe world is Twitter a more dominant news source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBritish journalists have more followers than the Irish ones\n(45K vs. 10K) and are included in more lists (262 vs. 98). But these facts are\nnot surprising when we take in consideration the number of inhabitants in these\ntwo countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This statistic surprised me because I believed that\ndifferent regions of the world would have different levels of Twitter activity.\nHowever, this statistic shows that journalists who speak the same language from\ndifferent countries have a lot in common. This makes me wonder whether or not there\nis a<em> relationship between language and\nlevel of Twitter activity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other Considerations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is the President\u2019s use of Twitter to deliver key information\ninfluencing others to join Twitter? Is it making Twitter users <strong>more likely to use Twitter as their primary\nmedium of obtaining news?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: This paper was primarily about how Twitter was being used by news producers and consumers, particularly in analyzing the differences between how journalists and organizations in Arab and European English-speaking countries use the platform. Through crawling thousands of tweets from various accounts, comparisons were made between these groups based on a set of features. 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