CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Watanabe, Kohei |
|---|---|
| Title | Dynamics of international news environments: Comparative analysis of online news services in the US and India |
| Summary | This research aims to understand the changes in international news environments by the Internet with particular interests in the global dominance of the US-based ITC companies. More than 60,000 international news items are collected from Yahoo! News, Google News and the online services of leading newspapers in the US and India, and dictionary-based computer content analysisis performed. In this thesis, the difference in increase of representation of news about developing countries by Yahoo! News and Google News between the US and India are examined. The results of the analyses show that Yahoo! News and Google News are creating almost the same amount of changes in representation of developing countries in the US and India. But Yahoo! News represents developing countries less than the online services of newspapers, while Google News represents developing countries more than the online services of newspapers. Less representation of developing countries by Yahoo! News is due to its total reliance on news agencies for news items. Higher representation of developing countries by Google News is due to its extremely diverse news sources including non-Western news organizations. The diversity in news sources produces a highly volatile and concentrated news coverage pattern and attracts attention from Western audience. The Internet is, on the one hand, creating international competition between news services but, on the other hand, creating opportunity for non-Western news organizations to enter the Western news markets. The Internet is pushing non-Western organizations forward and promoting so called ‘contra-flow‘ from the south. |
| Supervisor | Kate Coyer |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/watanabe_kohei.pdf |
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