How to discern the nuances of digital news habits when Americans’ attention spans are fractured.
To tackle this complex question, Pew Research Center, in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, took on the unusual task of staying in touch with more than 2,000 U.S. adults who get at least some news online over the course of a week. The study ran from Feb. 24 to March 1, 2016. Respondents were asked twice a day whether they got news online within the past two hours and, if so, were asked about their experience with that news. This technique was used to
Media Cloud: An Open Source Tool for Understanding How Media Cover Topics
MediaCloud, a joint project by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, allows researchers and individuals to use data to observe how stories unfold, both in the mainstream media and in blogs. MediaCloud indexes news media, so news companies can run queries to better understand how their key topics are covered by competitors, and how they influence coverage. Published case studies include reports on these topics
