Chapter 8. News – The Collective Social Media!
News is ubiquitous in nature, be it a breaking news flash, an opinion piece about the latest issues, or just a gossip-monger column on page 3 of your favorite daily. In the new age world of media such as Twitter, Facebook, and so on there is an indistinguishable line between what constitutes news and what constitutes social media content. We share the notion that the unique position news shares in today's electronic world makes it eligible to be termed social media. News can be described as a collective social media outlet, although each individual does not produce the news articles directly, but they collectively represent the beliefs, hopes, and dreams of the society.
In this chapter, we will try to go through the various steps that are involved in analyzing news from different sources. We will deal with the process of using news data and build use cases that will serve as an introduction for the complex analyzes that...