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The Effects of Facebook Referrals and Mobile Devices on Online News Consumption

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IMCOM '18: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3164541.3164617

Published: 05 January 2018 Publication History

Abstract

The expansion of social network, particularly Facebook and the ubiquitous use of mobile device has reshaped the way people consume news. In our study, we analyze Web server logs of a daily online newspaper in Malaysia to investigate the effects of Facebook referrals and mobile devices using Spearman rho. We found the following; (i) half of the pages accessed in that period are referred from Facebook; (ii) mobile device is used mainly to access the news website; and (iii) in terms of content, articles are the one type of content that is popularly accessed. Our findings are significant to the news provider for them to amplify their presence in social media.

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Schmidt FMangold FStier SUlloa R(2024)Facebook as an Avenue to News: A Comparison and Validation of Approaches to Identify Facebook ReferralsPolitical Communication10.1080/10584609.2024.234298341:6(921-943)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2342983
Sarirah Husin HIsmail S(2021)Process mining approach to analyze user navigation behavior of a news websiteProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Science and Systems10.1145/3459955.3460593(7-12)Online publication date: 17-Mar-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3459955.3460593
Husin HThom JZhang X(2021)Evolution of user navigation behavior for online newsInternational Journal of Web Information Systems10.1108/IJWIS-06-2021-0064ahead-of-print:ahead-of-printOnline publication date: 28-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWIS-06-2021-0064

Index Terms

The Effects of Facebook Referrals and Mobile Devices on Online News Consumption
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web mining
      1. Web log analysis

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Schmidt FMangold FStier SUlloa R(2024)Facebook as an Avenue to News: A Comparison and Validation of Approaches to Identify Facebook ReferralsPolitical Communication10.1080/10584609.2024.234298341:6(921-943)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2342983
Sarirah Husin HIsmail S(2021)Process mining approach to analyze user navigation behavior of a news websiteProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Science and Systems10.1145/3459955.3460593(7-12)Online publication date: 17-Mar-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3459955.3460593
Husin HThom JZhang X(2021)Evolution of user navigation behavior for online newsInternational Journal of Web Information Systems10.1108/IJWIS-06-2021-0064ahead-of-print:ahead-of-printOnline publication date: 28-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWIS-06-2021-0064

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