A Multinational Computational Analysis of Hyperlinking in News

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ID12908692
AuthorsRahul Bhargava (0000-0003-3904-4302, Northeastern University, corresponding author), Fernando Bermejo (0000-0003-2022-8013, Ecosystem (Spain)), Kathleen Chesnutt (Northeastern University), Danica Jefferies (Northeastern University), Emily Boardman Ndulue (0000-0001-9859-1627, Ecosystem (Spain))
Year2022
Volume18
Issue8
Pages2062-2084
Publication date2022-10-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2022.2133780
OpenAlexW4307358437
LanguageEN
References cited31

Studies of hyperlinks in news were prevalent in the onset of digital news publishing in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, the rise of social media platforms redirected researchers’ attention away from the open web, where hyperlinks played an essential role, to other corners of the digital ecosystem. As a result, research on the use of hyperlinks in news has waned in recent years, despite the continuing and frequent use of hyperlinks in digital news, and their role as connectors between social media and news media. We aim to fill that gap in the recent research literature on hyperlinks’ use in news through a multinational computational analysis. Analyzing 1,481,969 hyperlinks from 579,294 stories in 869 sources across seven countries in five continents, we found that, despite significant variations across countries, hyperlinking is quite prevalent in digital news, that external links are more prevalent than previously found, and that US sites and social media platforms are frequent targets of hyperlinks across the world

Advertising · Business · Hyperlink · Multinational corporation · Political science · World Wide Web · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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