From Editors' Choice To Readers’ Favorites: Analyzing Server Logs Of China's Biggest Online Newspaper
Title
From Editors' Choice To Readers’ Favorites: Analyzing Server Logs Of China's Biggest Online Newspaper
Creator
Gao, Yijun
Source
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ojs.cais-acsi.ca/index.php/cais-asci/article/view/760 (University of Alberta Open Journal Systems)
Publisher
University of Alberta
Date
2009
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Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
Text
Abstract
Analyzing the Web server logs of the online newspapers will help us better understanding the readers' information needs. Web server logs from the People's Daily Online, the biggest online newspaper from China, were studied and revealed some important findings: The editor's choice of important news titles, which were put on the most prominent sections of the homepage, did not match with the top news ranked by their daily pageview numbers. In the meantime, this study also found that the Chinese and English reads' online interest in the same events were different.
Extent
11 pages
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Citation
Gao, Yijun, “From Editors' Choice To Readers’ Favorites: Analyzing Server Logs Of China's Biggest Online Newspaper,” CALASYS - CALA Academic Resources & Repository System, accessed April 16, 2026, https://ir.cala-web.org/items/show/146.