A Study on the Demography and the Locations of the Internet News Readers

Abstract

With the transfer of the news sources to the internet and the traffic of the internet news sites also increase. The behavior of the users also differs from the traditional media. However, there are not enough studies regarding this topic. Another important property of internet for such studies is the availability of the real user behavior. The companies have behavior data of millions of users. These numbers cannot be reached using traditional methods and enables the true behaviors rather than opinions. The number of sociological studies using the digitally collected data is increasing in recent years. In this study, the reader habits are studied using the reader data of politics, sport, technology and magazine news categories from one of the top Turkish internet news web sites. This study is expected to provide a quantitative basis for future works.