Social Media News in Crisis? Popularity Analysis of the Top Nine Facebook Pages of Bangladeshi News Media

Q3 Social Sciences
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman
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Social media has become a popular source of information around the world. Previous studies explored different trends of social media news consumption. However, no studies have focused on Bangladesh to date, where social media penetration is very high in recent years. To fill this gap, this research aimed to understand its popularity trends during the period. For that reason, this work analyzes 97.67 million page likes and 3.48 billion interaction data collected from nine Bangladeshi news media’s Facebook pages between December 2016 to November 2020. The analysis shows that the growth rates of page likes and interaction rates declined during this period. It suggests that the media’s Facebook pages are gradually losing their popularity among Facebook users, which may have two more interpretations: Facebook’s aggregate appeal as a news source is decreasing to users, or Bangladeshi media’s appeal is eroding to Facebook users. These findings challenge the previous results, i
社交媒体新闻陷入危机?孟加拉新闻媒体前九大Facebook页面受欢迎程度分析
社交媒体已经成为世界各地流行的信息来源。以往的研究探讨了社交媒体新闻消费的不同趋势。然而,迄今为止还没有针对孟加拉国的研究,近年来孟加拉国的社交媒体普及率非常高。为了填补这一空白,本研究旨在了解其在此期间的流行趋势。因此,这项工作分析了2016年12月至2020年11月期间从9家孟加拉国新闻媒体的Facebook页面收集的9767万个页面点赞和34.8亿次互动数据。分析表明,在此期间,页面点赞率和互动率的增长率有所下降。这表明媒体的Facebook页面正在逐渐失去其在Facebook用户中的受欢迎程度,这可能还有两种解释:Facebook作为新闻来源的总体吸引力正在下降,或者孟加拉国媒体对Facebook用户的吸引力正在下降。这些发现对先前的结果提出了挑战
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Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice (JISTaP) is an international journal that aims at publishing original studies, review papers and brief communications on information science theory and practice. The journal provides an international forum for practical as well as theoretical research in the interdisciplinary areas of information science, such as information processing and management, knowledge organization, scholarly communication and bibliometrics. To foster scholarly communication among researchers and practitioners of library and information science around the globe, JISTaP offers a no-fee open access publishing venue where a team of dedicated editors, reviewers and staff members volunteer their services to ensure rapid dissemination and communication of scholarly works that make significant contributions. In a modern society, where information production and consumption grow at an astronomical rate, the science of information management, organization, and analysis is invaluable in effective utilization of information. The key objective of the journal is to foster research that can contribute to advancements and innovations in the theory and practice of information and library science so as to promote timely application of the findings from scientific investigations to everyday life. Recognizing the importance of the global perspective with understanding of region-specific issues, JISTaP encourages submissions of manuscripts that discuss global implications of regional findings as well as regional implications of global findings.
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