Location and timeliness of information sources during news events

Elad Yom-Tov, Fernando Diaz

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Abstract

People nowadays can obtain information on current news events through media outlets, social media, and by actively seeking information using search engines. In this paper we investigate the temporal relationship between news coverage by media outlets, social media, and query logs and show that social media frequently precedes other information sources. Additionally, we demonstrate that there is strong negative correlation between the probability for reporting of an event and the distance of the information source from the event.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1105-1106
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9781450309349
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011 - Beijing, China
Duration: 24 Jul 201128 Jul 2011

Publication series

NameSIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period24/07/1128/07/11

Keywords

  • Distance
  • Information
  • Need
  • Physical
  • Social

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