News Consumption in Time of Conflict: 2021 Palestinian-Israel War as an Example

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12844v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:39:04 GMT
• Title: News Consumption in Time of Conflict: 2021 Palestinian-Israel War as an Example
• Authors: Kareem Darwish
• Abstract summary: We conduct a detailed analysis of the news consumption of more than eight thousand Twitter users who are either pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli. We identify the stance of users using unsupervised stance detection. We observe that users may consume more topically-related content from foreign and less popular sources.
• Score: 4.106987095869419
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper examines news consumption in response to a major polarizing event, and we use the May 2021 Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an example. We conduct a detailed analysis of the news consumption of more than eight thousand Twitter users who are either pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli and authored more than 29 million tweets between January 1 and August 17, 2021. We identified the stance of users using unsupervised stance detection. We observe that users may consume more topically-related content from foreign and less popular sources, because, unlike popular sources, they may reaffirm their views, offer more extreme, hyper-partisan, or sensational content, or provide more in depth coverage of the event. The sudden popularity of such sources may not translate to longer-term or general popularity on other topics.

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