Verba Volant, Scripta Volant: Understanding Post-publication Title Changes in News Outlets
Verba Volant, Scripta Volant: Understanding Post-publication Title Changes in News Outlets
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Verba Volant、Scripta Volant：了解新闻媒体出版后标题的变化
DOI：
10.1145/3485447.3512219
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发表时间：
2022
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通讯作者：
Skiena, Steven
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作者：
Guo, Xingzhi;Kondracki, Brian;Nikiforakis, Nick;Skiena, Steven
数字媒体（包括网站和在线社交网络）通过灵活和个性化的渠道促进新闻传播。与传统报纸在出版后变为“只读”不同，在线新闻来源可以在首次发布后随意修改新闻标题。出版后标题变化的动机、频率和影响在很大程度上是未知的，没有可供研究人员进行比较的线下同等内容。在本文中，我们通过跟踪美国主要新闻机构在六个月内（2021 年 3 月至 2021 年 9 月）的约 411,000 篇文章，收集并分析了超过 41,000 对更改的新闻标题，发现 7.5% 的文章至少有一次出版后标题编辑，其类型广泛，从微小更新到完全重写。我们描述了标题修改的频率，以及某些媒体是否比其他媒体更有可能进行出版后标题的更改。我们发现，49.7% 的更改超出了细微的拼写或语法更正范围，其中 23.13% 的更改导致向读者传达的信息截然不同。最后，为了更好地理解发布后标题编辑和社交媒体之间的相互作用，我们对 Twitter 上的新闻流行度进行了时间分析。我们发现，有效的标题发布后编辑应在首次发布后的前十小时内进行，以确保以前的、可能具有误导性的信息不会在社交网络上完全传播。
Digital media (including websites and online social networks) facilitate the broadcasting of news via flexible and personalized channels. Unlike conventional newspapers which become “read-only” upon publication, online news sources are free to arbitrarily modify news headlines after their initial release. The motivation, frequency, and effect of post-publication headline changes are largely unknown, with no offline equivalent from where researchers can draw parallels.In this paper, we collect and analyze over 41K pairs of altered news headlines by tracking ∼ 411K articles from major US news agencies over a six month period (March to September 2021), identifying that 7.5% articles have at least one post-publication headline edit with a wide range of types, from minor updates, to complete rewrites. We characterize the frequency with which headlines are modified and whether certain outlets are more likely to be engaging in post-publication headline changes than others. We discover that 49.7% of changes go beyond minor spelling or grammar corrections, with 23.13% of those resulting in drastically disparate information conveyed to readers. Finally, to better understand the interaction between post-publication headline edits and social media, we conduct a temporal analysis of news popularity on Twitter. We find that an effective headline post-publication edit should occur within the first ten hours after the initial release to ensure that the previous, potentially misleading, information does not fully propagate over the social network.
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2018-08
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作者：
Sohan De Sarkar;Fan Yang;Arjun Mukherjee
通讯作者：
Sohan De Sarkar;Fan Yang;Arjun Mukherjee
影响因子：
3.1
作者：
Hagar, Nick;Diakopoulos, Nicholas
通讯作者：
Diakopoulos, Nicholas
影响因子：
1.6
作者：
Blom, Jonas Nygaard;Hansen, Kenneth Reinecke
通讯作者：
Hansen, Kenneth Reinecke