Characterizing the life cycle of online news stories using social media reactions

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 211-223

  Castillo, Carlos ^a   El Haddad, Mohammed ^b   Pfeffer, Jürgen ^c   Stempeck, Matt ^d  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

^b AlJazeera Network   (Qatar)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Online news; Predictive web analytics; Web analytics

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE;

EARLY PREDICTION; NEWS ARTICLES; NEWS CONTENT; OBSERVATION METHOD; ONLINE NEWS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WEB ANALYTICS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898948378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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