News and the city: understanding online press consumption patterns through mobile data
Journal
EPJ Data Science
ISSN
2193-1127
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Type
Resource Types::text::journal::journal article
Abstract
The always increasing mobile connectivity affects every aspect of our daily lives, including how and when we keep ourselves informed and consult news media. By studying a DPI dataset, provided by one of the major Chilean telecommunication companies, we investigate how different cohorts of the population of Santiago De Chile consume news media content through their smartphones. We find that some socio-demographic attributes are highly associated to specific news media consumption patterns. In particular, education and age play a significant role in shaping the consumers behaviour even in the digital context, in agreement with a large body of literature on off-line media distribution channels.
Subjects
deep packet inspection
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geo-referenced analysis
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mobile data
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news consumption
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urban
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consumption patterns
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daily lives
;
deep packet inspection
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media distribution
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mobile connectivity
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mobile data
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santiago de chile
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telecommunication companies
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telecommunication industry