How Blogging Has Changed The Pattern Of The Mainstream News Cycle
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 18:28
in Mathematics & Economics
Cornell computer scientists say they have tracked and analyzed the "news cycle", the way stories rise and fall in popularity, and found a consistent pattern as stories rose into prominence and then fell off after a few days, with a 'heartbeat' pattern of handoffs between blogs and mainstream media. In mainstream media, in most cases a story rises to prominence slowly then dies quickly but in the blogosphere, stories rise in popularity very quickly but then stay around longer, as discussion goes back and forth. Every story is eventually pushed aside by something newer. So blogs may not be taking the place of newspapers and television news as much as magazine features, where more complex stories would usually be fleshed out. read more
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