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Tracking Digitally Consumed News ...
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Abstract:
Poster presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2015, 3 February 2015, Antwerp, Belgium. The digitization of journalism has increasingly enabled news organizations to monitor the behavior of online news users by using metric tools such as Google Analytics or Chartbeat.[1] Large screens in newsrooms show real-time numbers of the amount of visitors on a news website, allowing editors to adjust the contents of their websites adherently (Anderson, 2011; MacGregor, 2007; Vu, 2014). Gathering this type of data is grounded in the tradition of audience measurement devices which started in the US in the 1950s and consolidated in the 1970 when the first people meters were installed to monitor how long, when, and what programs have been watched on television (Vicente-Marino, 2013, p. 43). With the advent of online media, it has become possible to also track online news consumption starting around the year 2000 (Coffey, 2001). While metric tools gather information of individual websites, tracking of online user ...
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200104 Media Studies; Applied Computer Science; Computer Software; Digital Humanities; FOS Computer and information sciences; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Media and communications; Library and Information Studies; Linguistics
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1299204.v1
https://figshare.com/articles/poster/Tracking_Digitally_Consumed_News/1299204/1
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