{"id":93,"date":"2019-01-29T05:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T05:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/?p=93"},"modified":"2019-01-29T05:28:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T05:28:24","slug":"reading-reflection-1-1-28-henry-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/2019\/01\/29\/reading-reflection-1-1-28-henry-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"[Reading Reflection 1] \u2013 [1\/28] \u2013 [Henry Wang]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bagdouri investigates the intersection of journalism and\nTwitter with a multi-faceted analysis that spans a set of \u201c5000 news producers\nand 1 million news consumers\u201d. The main research questions Bagdouri seeks to\nanswer are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Is Twitter usage the same or different for news\nproducers compared to news consumers?<\/li><li>Can previous findings be applied to a wholly\ndifferent group of journalists?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason for doing such an investigation is that previous\nstudies focused on a small and specific set of data that it was difficult to apply\nthose findings to a larger and more spread-out set of data. With a larger set\nof data, Bagdouri analyzes different features of over 13 million tweets and\nover 5,000 Twitter accounts of journalists and news organizations using\ndifferent statistical analyses, in particular Welch and Kolmogorov-Smirnov\nstatistical tests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having rarely used Twitter as a social media platform before\nreading this article, this Bagdouri\u2019s research gave me insight into some of the\nmore practical usages of the platform: mainly broadcasting and disseminating information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beginning of the article starts off with selecting\ncriteria to compare the groups of Twitter accounts, and Bagdouri comes up with\neighteen different criteria. <strong>How were\nthose chosen, and are they good metrics?<\/strong> In my opinion, some of these\nmetrics are not as easily quantifiable as Bagdouri suggests. For example, one feature\nthat was analyzed was audience reaction. This is a binary classification: did\nanother user retweet, or did the user favorite a tweet? To me, in a study that\naims to describe how journalists and consumers interact through social media we\nwould need better classification that involves not only positive reactions but\nnegative ones as well. For instance, measuring number of times people had seen\na particular tweet but did not favorite nor retweet could be a third\nclassification in this sub-category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other categories are easier to define and to collect data\nfor, though their purposes are not entirely clear. For instance, the author mentions\npublication medium as a means of differentiating between tweets made through\nmobile or desktop applications, but to me this does not seem like a\nclassification that would yield any insight regarding the way journalists and\nconsumers of news interact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing that I still have questions about though are <strong>how does Bagdouri account for cultural\ndifferences?<\/strong> The author is aware that differences may exist between Arabic\nand English journalists, and analyzes each group independently, but then\ncompares the two without providing an explanation or hypothesis for the\ndifference (e.g. \u201cWe note first the unsurprising observation that journalists\nare more likely to have a verified account [is] 8.46% vs 0.35% for Arabic, and\n14.84% vs 2.96% for English).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, it seems the paper has moved from the broader\ncategory of journalism source vs consumer to a more specific type of journalism\nsource vs consumer. The paper suggests two strategies, Twitter for independent journalists\nvs Twitter for news organizations, reaches the same audience based on the fact\nthat the two groups receive roughly the same number of favorites. <strong>Is this idea flawed because Bagdouri does\nnot compare tweet-by-tweet over the same particular event? <\/strong>To me, this is\nflawed because viewers might relate to certain events more closely, e.g. news about\na hurricane in Florida may see more retweets and favorites versus news about\nthe oldest cat in Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>How can we\nexplore, track, and analyze the dissemination of information not just from news\nsource to viewer, but from viewer A to viewer A\u2019s friend? <\/strong><\/li><li><strong>How does\nindirect news affect perceptions of whether or not a source is accurate in the\nage of \u201cfake news\u201d?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Bagdouri investigates the intersection of journalism and Twitter with a multi-faceted analysis that spans a set of \u201c5000 news producers and 1 million news consumers\u201d. The main research questions Bagdouri seeks to answer are: Is Twitter usage the same or different for news producers compared to news consumers? Can previous findings be applied to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}