SoDOMM Social Distribution of Media
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Posted by Tom Foremski - April 4, 2011 There have been quite a few studies lately on what people Tweet and post on Facebook, and the large number of links that people share. Invariably, the links that most people share belong to large media organizations -- what used to be called mass-media. For example, Nate Silver recently analyzed links to news sources and found that of the top 30 news sources, nearly all were traditional large news sites such as AP or New York Times, only TMZ and Politico were new.
The Demise Of Social Media And The Return Of Mass Media - SVW
Some Thoughts On The Social Distribution Of Mass Media...(SoDOMM) - SVW
(Photo shows a meeting of the seminal Homebrew Computing Club - credit: Computer History Museum .) Earlier this week I pointed out how "social media" has changed from its original promise of challenging the established order of mass media. Where are the brigades of citizen journalists? What's become of the hope of the grass roots revolt against the gate keepers in our national and local media?
Today's news of the demise of The News of the World newspaper was both shocking and exhilarating: that a 168 year old Sunday newspaper with more than 200 staff, selling almost 3 million copies a week, can be closed so suddenly is without precedence. The News of the World was the first newspaper I bought. I was about seven or eight years old and decided I needed to get serious about life and that I needed to know what was going on the world. I looked around the newsagents for something that could tell me the news of the world, and here was a newspaper that described perfectly what I wanted. My precious pocket money purchased an issue and I took it home and studied it.
Rupert Murdoch And The SoDOMM Effect In Social Media - SVW
Posted by Tom Foremski - March 28, 2011 Social media is touted by many as a way to get around the gatekeepers of media, the traditional old order of mass media setting the agenda for society has been tipped onto its head. We find a striking concentration of attention on Twitter—roughly 50% of tweets consumed are generated by just 20K elite users—where the media produces the most information, but celebrities are the most followed. It's an interesting scientific paper. I stress scientific because the analysis is made through statistical analysis of large numbers of people and according to well tested academic principles. These are not the pontifications of social media "gurus".
Study Shows How Social Media Amplifies Mass Media - SVW
We study several longstanding questions in media communications research, in the context of the microblogging service Twitter, regarding the production, flow, and consumption of information. To do so, we exploit a recently introduced feature of Twitter known as “lists” to distinguish between elite users—by which we mean celebrities, bloggers, and representatives of media outlets and other formal organizations—and ordinary users. Based on this classification, we find a striking concentration of attention on Twitter, in that roughly 50% of URLs consumed are generated by just 20K elite users, where the media produces the most information, but celebrities are the most followed. We also find significant homophily within categories: celebrities listen to celebrities, while bloggers listen to bloggers etc; however, bloggers in general rebroadcast more information than the other categories.
Who Says What to Whom on Twitter | Yahoo! Research