1. San Francisco Bay Area News Ecology Hayreddin Ceker

2. Outline Background Project Description Data collection Related Work

3. Background communication and the expression -TV -Radio -Print publications Traditional Media Democratic and decentralized The audience can contribute Community to participation and consumption Networked Media

4. Supporting Idea A key point is given by Adrienne Russell to support the idea of new networked media and its reliance in her book Treatments of new media in Iraq War (2003) Treatments of old media in Gulf War (1991) It is referred overtly that George W. Bush was not able to repeat the father Bush’s trick of massaging the message, 12 years after Bush senior expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

5. Project Description Use “Complex Networks” analysis to demonstrate transition from Traditional Media to Networked Media  Take snapshots of current ecosystem, San Francisco Bay Area  News-to-news network  Author-to-link network  Commenter network

6. News-to-news NW Inbound link # Outbound link # Central nodes Corner nodes

7. Author-to-link NW Bipartite graph Author 1 Author 2 Author 3 San Francisco Chronicle San Jose Mercury News -Source for news -Author’s attitude Old style vs Hyperlinks Degree of authorDegree of websites

8. Commenter NW Bipartite Graph Links between commenters and news Commenter 1 Commenter 2 Commenter 3 News A News B 1-node graph How the commenters interact with each other Commenter 1 Commenter 2 Commenter 3 2 1

9. Effective Factors Measure density, centrality, betweenness etc. metrics Seek for “degree of leakage” The links which are not in the ecology Influence of “agenda setting” The power of media in affecting audiences in terms of what stories to consider newsworthy how much prominence and space to give them

10. Predictions News-to-news network Groups of websites Source Hubs Blogs Big organizations have more inbound links and very few outbound links Blog news websites have outbound links Comments are under effect of agenda setting Degree of leakage toward Wikipedia like websites

11. I wonder whether There are similar values of Average number of inbound or outbound links for the websites in the same category Average number of comments etc There are popular news, authors, commenters

12. Data Collection Use a sample of 180 news websites from the San Francisco Bay area Crawl the websites Link recognition Author Recognition Comment Recognition

13. Problems No standard structure of websites Author Comment Commenters Old websites have huge amount of pages Hard to crawl Links to non-existing websites Advertisements Media objects

14. Related Work Power-law distribution in co-authorship by Newman The Internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news

15. Cont’d A Network Analysis of Chicago Websites To simplify analysis, sites were coded by Category

16. El Fin Thank you for listening! ¿QUESTIONS?