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6 papers
Pathways to Fragmentation:User Flows and Web Distribution Infrastructures
Harsh Taneja, Angela Xiao Wu
This study analyzes how web audiences flow across online digital features. We construct a directed network of user flows based on sequential user clickstreams for all popular websi…
Rethinking the Generational Gap in Online News Use: An Infrastructural Perspective
Harsh Taneja, Angela Xiao Wu, Stephanie Edgerly
Our study investigates the role of infrastructures in shaping online news usage by contrasting use patterns of two social groups,millennials and boomers,that are specifically locat…
Mapping an Audience Centric World Wide Web: A Departure From Hyperlink Analysis
Harsh Taneja
This paper argues that maps of the Web's structure based solely on technical infrastructure such as hyperlinks may bear little resemblance to maps based on Web usage, as cultural f…
Reimagining Internet Geographies: A User-Centric Ethnological Mapping of the World Wide Web
Angela Xiao Wu, Harsh Taneja
We propose a new user-centric imagery of the WWW that foregrounds local usage and its shaping forces, in contrast to existing imageries that prioritize Internet infrastructure. We…
How Do Global Audiences Take Shape? The Role of Institutions and Culture in Patterns of Web Use
Harsh Taneja, James Webster
This study investigates the role of both cultural and technological factors in determining audience formation on a global scale. It integrates theories of media choice with theorie…
Does the Great Firewall really isolate the Chinese? Integrating access blockage with cultural factors to explain web user behavior
Harsh Taneja, Angela Xiao Wu
The dominant understanding of Internet censorship posits that blocking access to foreign-based websites creates isolated communities of Internet users. We question this discourse f…