Temporal and spatial analysis of the media spotlight

Bibliographic Data

ID7499111
AuthorsRafael Prieto-Curiel (0000-0002-0738-2633, corresponding author), Carmen Cabrera-Arnau (0000-0002-2732-6436), Carmen Cabrera Arnau, Mara Torres Pinedo (0000-0003-4444-9881), Humberto González Ramírez (0000-0002-3988-534X), Steven R Bishop (0009-0009-2669-4411)
Year2019
Volume75
Pages254-263
Publication date2019-03-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComputers Environment and Urban Systems (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0198-9715 • E-ISSN: 1873-7587
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.02.004
OpenAlexW2921413173
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited38

Items featured in the news usually have a particular novelty or describe events which result in severe impact. Here, the length of time that a story remains in the media spotlight is investigated as well as the scaling with population size of the amount of attention that the media gives to stories from different cities. Based on Twitter feeds, the media coverage from the major online newspapers in Mexico is analysed over a period either side of a recent powerful earthquake. The amount of coverage given to earthquake-related stories had an initial peak and then exhibited an exponential decay, dropping by half every eight days. Furthermore, the coverage per person usually exhibits a superlinear scaling with population size, so that stories about larger cities are more likely to appear in the news. However, during the immediate post-earthquake weeks, the scaling was no longer superlinear. The observed trends can be interpreted as a fundamental switch in the emergent collective behaviour of media producers and consumers

Computer Science · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Media Studies and Communication · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence

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