We then ran the modularity algorithm in Gephi to agglomerate and visualize various geopolitical clusters. In total, 30,072,787 records were preliminarily analyzed as a directional network, with each news site as a node, and the total links as the weight of each edge. Based on GDELT’s geographic source lookup, we roughly placed the online news outlets geographically in space. The domain-level graph showed how many different days and how many total links there were from each news outlet to URLs on any other domain (including subdomains of itself). Over the period from Apto January 28, 2019, The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) has archived 1.78 billion links from 304 million online news articles in over 100 languages. Building upon the existing literature which indicated internal and external variables that had been shown to have significant effects on global news flow, hyperlinks in online articles, as digital navigational cues and metaphorical signposts which can guide news readers through the complex information landscape, were investigated to map the dynamic structure of the global network and the geopolitics of information in the era of digital capitalism.īy incorporating intermedia agenda-setting theory, we assumed that the way each news outlet cited the others suggested the transfer of issue salience between different news agendas. This study takes a network approach to examining the changing sphere of global news flow - one of the chief subjects in international communication - and the systematic determinants behind it.

Some classical laws in international communication, including Wallerstein’s World System Theory, have developed various frameworks to conceptualize nation-states with different political and economic statuses, suggesting that countries were arrayed along a center-semiperipheral-peripheral dimension in the international information network. In an interconnected digital world, information, or news in particular, plays a crucial role in this network of exchange.

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