Choice of Information: A Study of Twitter News Sharing during the 2009 Israel-Gaza Conflict

Author

ONOOK OH, Center for Collaboration Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, United States.Follow
Kyounghee Kwon, Culture and Communication, Drexel University, 19104, PA, United States.Follow
Manish Agrawal, Information Systems Decision Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States.Follow
H.R. Rao, Management Science and Systems, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States.Follow

Abstract

The study explores determinants of the prominence of public information sources in Twitter. Twitter users are conceptualized as the “gated” who play an active role in selecting and distributing news sources through their Twitter messages. Using Twitter data on the Israel-Gaza conflict, the study identifies three determinants that characterize information sources: whether they are produced by mainstream media, whether they are filtered through aggregator services, and the number of in-links to the source media generated by the online public.

Recommended Citation

OH, ONOOK; Kwon, Kyounghee; Agrawal, Manish; and Rao, H.R., "Choice of Information: A Study of Twitter News Sharing during the 2009 Israel-Gaza Conflict" (2011). ICIS 2011 Proceedings. 1.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2011/proceedings/issues/1