Your Friend as Editor: The Shift to the Personalized Social News Stream (original) (raw)

2011

Abstract

This study examines the impact of social media spaces on news consumption, based on an online survey of 1,600 Canadians. News organizations are rushing into social media, viewing services like Facebook and Twitter as opportunities to market and distribute content. But there has been little research outside of the US into the effect of social media on news consumption. Our study found that social networks are becoming a significant source of news for Canadians. Two-fifths of social networking users said they get news from ...

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