With the increasing importance of online information environments, researchers have started
investigating direct measures of online media use, such as online tracking. Most existing …

The Internet gives individuals more choice in political news and information sources and
more tools to filter out disagreeable information. Citing the preference described by selective …

The complexity and diversity of today's media landscape provides many challenges for
scholars studying online news consumption. Yet it is unclear how news consumers navigate …

The last two years has marked a turning point in access to large-scale social media data for
many researchers, as platforms hobbled their APIs and made recording, archiving, and …

In recent years, the volume of clickstream and user data collected by news organizations
has reached enormous proportions. As a result, news organizations—as well as journalism …

Purpose This study investigates perceptions of the use of online tracking, a passive data
collection method relying on the automated recording of participant actions on desktop and …

While the web contains many social websites, people are generally left in the dark about the
activities of other people traversing the web as a whole. In this paper, we explore the …

Understanding people's online behaviour has traditionally been a field of interest of
commercial research agencies. However, academic researchers in a variety of fields are …

This article evaluates the quality of data collection in individual-level desktop information
tracking used in the social sciences and shows that the existing approaches face sampling …

Research analyzing real-world web browsing data has generally been collected from digital
service providers or the online panelists of corporate research panels. These approaches …