Paper Info
Title
News in the age of the web
Abstract
One of the most exciting and successful examples of the Web impacting society is online news. The history of the news industry from print to the online medium is an interesting journey. Broadcast news transformed society by making news available instantly rather than once a day. While more channels became available, barriers to entry remained high and mainstream opinions continued to dominate. News on the net has brought in a number of valuable transformations, allowing news to be made (potentially) more accessible, diverse, democratic, personalized and interactive than before. Blogging has now made "citizen reporting" possible. As with any disruptive technology online news has both positive and negative implications, such as the threat of disinformation. Computer assisted news is a fun area of research that draws upon prior work in information retrieval, data mining and user interfaces. Given the volume of online news being generated today, the ability to find news and related facts quickly and with high relevance affects both readers and journalists. The talk will address the social implications as well as the technical challenges in the dissemination of online news, with a focus on Google News. Google News is an automated service that makes over 4,500 online, English sources searchable and browseable in real time, with an emphasis on breadth of coverage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1062745.1062771
WWW (Special interest tracks and posters)
Keywords
Field
DocType
disruptive technology online news,web impacting society,high relevance,online news,news industry,google news,english sources searchable,automated service,online medium,broadcast news,user interface,web crawler,information retrieval,barriers to entry,real time,data mining
Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Disinformation,News aggregator,Computer science,News media,Barriers to entry,User interface,Web crawler,Mainstream,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-051-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Krishna A. Bharat11211252.86