Email News Research Articles

From Feeds to Inboxes: A Comparative Study of Polarization in Facebook and Email News Sharing

This study explores the polarization of news content shared on Facebook compared with email using data from the New York Times’ Most Emailed and Most Shared lists over 2.5 years. Employing latent Dirichlet allocation and large language models (LLMs), we find that highly polarized articles are more likely to be shared on Facebook (versus email), even after accounting for factors like topics, emotion, and article age. Additionally, distinct topic preferences emerge, with social issues dominating Facebook shares and lifestyle topics prevalent in emails. Contrary to expectations, political polarization of articles shared on Facebook did not escalate post-2020 election. We introduce a novel approach to measuring polarization of text content that leverages generative artificial intelligence models, like ChatGPT, and it is both scalable and cost effective. This research contributes to the evolving intersection of LLMs, social media, and polarization studies, shedding light on descriptive patterns of content dissemination across different digital channels. This paper was accepted by Duncan Simester, marketing. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.04134 .

From Feeds to Inboxes: A Comparative Study of Polarization in Facebook and Email News Sharing

From Feeds to Inboxes: A Comparative Study of Polarization in Facebook and Email News Sharing

A study to assess the awareness of periodontitis and its relationship with systemic health among undergraduate medical students.

Introduction The association between periodontitis and certain systemic diseases is well established; however, there is a distinct lack of research available on its awareness among medical students in the United Kingdom.Aims To determine the awareness of fourth-year undergraduate medical students concerning periodontitis including its risk factors, relationship with systemic health and students' attitudes towards oral diseases and further education.Methods We delivered an online survey via a weekly email news bulletin to 299 fourth-year medical students and received 101 completed responses.Results Medical students were largely aware of the most common features of periodontitis and recognised that systemic diseases may affect the periodontium. There was less awareness of the associations between certain systemic diseases and periodontitis and there appeared to be confusion with tooth decay. Perceived knowledge was generally reported to be poor and most students believed that further teaching would improve their medical practice.Conclusions Increased teaching on periodontitis within the medical curriculum would benefit students. This may be achieved using an integrated teaching approach. Future doctors should graduate with an adequate education on the interdisciplinary links and should be capable of signposting or referring patients early to the appropriate services where indicated to improve patient care.

BİR DİJİTAL PAZARLAMA ARACI OLARAK ÇEVRİMİÇİ MARİNA HABERLERİNİN ANALİZİ

Dijital pazarlama araçları hem yaygınlık, etkinlik, hem de çeşitlilik bağlamında hızlı bir gelişim sergilemektedir. Televizyon, radyo, gazete, dergi gibi geleneksel medya araçları dijital pazarlamanın internet, mobil cihazlar ve uygulamalar, sosyal medya, kullanıcı tarafından yaratılan haber ağları, çevrim içi haber kanalları gibi araçlarının gerisinde kalmaktadır. Dijital pazarlama marinacılık sektöründe de etkin kullanılması gereken bir araç olmaya devam etmektedir.
 Çevrim içi haber kanalları sektörel haber oluşturma kaynakları arasında en üst sıralarda yer almakta olup, denizcilik alanında da yaygın olarak kullanılmaktadır. Araştırmanın konusunu oluşturan marinacılık sektörü ile ilgili haberlere yaygın olarak yer veren www.virahaber.com araştırmaya veri kaynağı olarak seçilmiştir. Genellikle ortak içeriğe sahip olan haber portalı ve eposta haberleri iki yıl zaman aralığında taranmış ve marinaların konu edildiği 102 habere ulaşılmıştır. 
 İçeriğinde marina ve marinacılık bulunan haberler özenle incelenmiş, iki yazar tarafından dokuz ana 32 alt kod elde edilmiştir. Değerlendiriciler Arası Güvenilirlik (DAG) Cohen Kappa yaklaşımı ile değerlendirilmiş, Kappa Değeri %82,1 olarak ölçülmüştür. Taranan haberlerde en çok kullanılan marina haberi 13 haber ile fuara katılım olurken, 10 haberle eğlence haberleri ve sekiz haberle sportif yat yarışı haberleri takip etmektedir. İçerik analizinin sonucu, oluşturulmuş kavram haritaları ve sözcük bulutları üzerinden incelenmiştir.

Exploring the Relationship between Trunk Adiposity and Trunk Flexibility

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between trunk adiposity and trunk flexibility among adults. Methods: A total of 29 participants, male (n=11) and female (n=18) participants between the ages of 19 and 84 years. The participants were recruited from the University of Central Oklahoma daily email news service. The bioelectrical impedance analyzer (BIA) was used to calculate percent body fat and body mass index (BMI). Three circumference measurements were taken on each participant: waist, abdomen, and hips. The two inclinometers were placed on the sacroiliac joint (S1) and thoracic 12 (T12) to measure trunk flexion and extension. Trunk flexibility was measured as the difference between the two reading at full flexion or extension. Results: The Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used to analyze the results. There was a significant negative relationship between trunk flexion correlated with abdomen circumference (r= -.49, p= .01) and hip circumference (r= -.39, p= .03). There was a non- significant relationship observed between trunk flexion and WHR (r= -.10, p= .62) and waist circumference (r= -.35, p= .06). There was a non-significant relationship observed between trunk extension and WHR (r= -.07, p= .71), waist circumference (r= .17, p= .38), abdomen circumference (r= .07, p= .71), and hip circumference (r= .29, p= .13). Trunk flexion was not correlated to BMI (r= -.27, p= .15) and body fat percentage (r= -.29, p= .14). A significant relationship was found between trunk extension and BMI (r= .38, p= .04). Trunk extension and body fat percentage (r= .02, p= .92) did not have a significant relationship. Conclusion: Abdomen and hips are most beneficial when measuring circumferences for trunk adiposity. It was found that trunk flexion has a greater relationship with trunk adiposity than trunk extension.

The Potential of Online Media: A Coorientational Analysis of Conflict between PR Professionals and Journalists in South Korea

A total of 225 public relations practitioners and journalists in South Korea were surveyed regarding eleven types of offline source-reporter interaction (i.e., telephone contact, fax/mail/wire/courier press releases, interviews, press conferences, private meetings, etc.), and nine types of online source-reporter interaction (i.e., e-mail news releases, multimedia press kits, streaming audio/video clips, organizational homepages, Web site pressrooms, online discussion group/forum, etc.). In all types of source-reporter relationships, both parties disagree and inaccurately predict the other's view. However, respondents expect that online media relations offer promise, with both groups predicting less conflict in online source-reporter relationships.

New Media

The Internet has served as an important conduit of diverse news and activism during both the US-led wars against Iraq, in 1991 and again in 2003. In 1991, the Internet was largely a tool for academics in the West, defence researchers in the US and international NGOs; content was largely in plain text format on e-mail discussion lists and Usenet newsgroups. In 2003, the full glory of global Internet communications via multimedia websites, e-mail news feeds, blogs and online fundraising was joined by a plethora of wireless technologies ranging from SMS news alerts to user-submitted photographs of anti-war rallies. This article raises some key criticism of mainstream US coverage of the US-led wars against Iraq; illustrates the wide spectrum of resources that the Internet offers for critical thinkers, communication scholars, concerned citizens and progressive activists; and highlights the crucial role that the Internet and convergent wireless media can play as the “second superpower” of global public opinion.

The Interplay of Professional and Cultural Factors in the Online Source-Reporter Relationship

Using discriminant function analysis, this study identifies both professional and cultural factors that distinguish source-reporter relations in South Korea and the United States. Some 339 public relations practitioners and journalists in Korea and the US were surveyed regarding 20 types of offline and online source-reporter interactions (i.e. telephone contact, fax/mail/wire/courier news releases, interviews, press conferences, private meetings, email news releases, multimedia press kits, homepages, website pressrooms, etc.) in terms of usefulness, influence, credibility, ethics and professionalism. Particular attention was given to online media relations. Overall, email news releases, online inquiry, homepages and website pressroom were evaluated highly as useful, influential, credible, ethical and professional. Particularly, email news releases were rated as useful and influential, whereas the website pressrooms were highly evaluated as credible, ethical and professional.

Newspaper Readership v. News Emails

Migrating from print to online media has been a difficult, financially unsuccessful endeavour thus far for most media organisations. The lack of a consistently reliable revenue stream and failure to satisfy information needs are two major reasons why. Of concern is displacing existing revenue streams with a new medium. This study, the first to look at industry trade publishing on the internet, is an attempt to find out whether recipients of daily email news updates from furniture industry trade publication Furniture/Today spend less time with the weekly print edition. To find the answer, 678 recipients via email of FurniturelToday's eDaily news update each morning were surveyed in March 2001. The study puts to an empirical test the principle of relative constancy, which theorises that consumers spend a relatively fixed amount of money on and time with media.

Editorial

Editorial Stephen Jobe reports via e-mail news he picked up from Susan Gunter, who had the word from Alexander James, the son of William James's grandson Alexander James—the sad news that the elder Alexander James died in Portugal this past January 17." Considering the many kindnesses that Alexander James has shown to Jamesians," Professor Jobe writes, "I thought you might want to note his passing in the HJR." Mr. James was long the executor of his great-uncle Henry's literary estate, a post that occasioned those many kindnesses (and that he inherited from John James, Billy James's son, in 1969). It is my understanding that the executorship now passes to the Houghton Library at Harvard University. "We join the James family in mourning the passing of Alexander James. Jamesians may also be interested in a forthcoming conference at Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury, May 6,1995: "A Celebration of Two Lives: William Kingdon Clifford (1845) and Lucy Clifford (1846-1929)." Lucy Clifford, a bestselling writer of novels, plays, and short stories, was (as Leon Edel puts the matter) one of Henry James's "oldest and most cherished London friends. " James's letters to Lucy Clifford are indeed memorable parts of the James epistolarium. Her husband William was recognized as a genius mathematician and outspoken atheist. Further information about the conference is available from Professor J. S. R. Chisholm, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, telephone 0227 764000; fax 0227 475453; e-mail j.s.r.chisholm@ukc.ac.uk. Let me add, too, a reminder about the James-Conrad Conference, also at the University of Kent this summer (July 5-9,1995), a joint project of the Henry James Society and the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.). For additional information, please write to Professor Keith Carabine, 8 Ethelbert Road, Canterbury, England, e-mail K.Carabine@ukc.ac.uk.—DMF ...

Food and Nutrition Database Section

The purpose of this section is to provide in-depth descriptions, reviews and/or evaluations of new food and nutrition electronic information sources such as on-line databses, CD-ROM databases, specialized software packages, and E-Mail news services. All aspects of food and nutrition except agriculture and agricultural production will be covered. Subjects will range from business and industry to science and technology and from consumer concerns to health professional interests. The needs of the occasional searcher as well as those of the expert searcher will be addressed. One or more electronic based information sources will be considered each time this section appears. Database producers as well as experienced users and the editors of this Journal will contribute their expertise to this endeavor. The first offering of this section is a description of the Lodging and Restaurant Electronic Index by Judith M. Nixon. She is the individual most responsible for its development and production. This database prov...