Meanings
alternative clickbaityness
- informaluncountableSynonym of clickbaitness.
“Clickbaitiness is still really important, as it was in 2016,” Mr. [Guillaume] Chaslot said.
2020 November 3, Jack Nicas, “YouTube Cut Down Misinformation. Then It Boosted Fox News.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 20202 more examples
So, on average, an unreliable outlet’s headline has a higher chance of receiving more clicks or attention than a reliable outlet’s headline. To further investigate this, we examine the clickbaitiness of the headlines.
2019, Sameer Dhoju, Md Main Uddin Rony, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Naeemul Hassan, “A Large-Scale Analysis of Health Journalism by Reliable and Unreliable Media”, in Lucila Ohno-Machado, Brigitte Séroussi, editors, MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All: Proceedings of the 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Amsterdam: IOS Press, →ISBN, part 1, section I (Interpreting Health and Biomedical Data), page 95, column 2Questions assessing the overall article credibility, and other dimensions on the news headline (i.e., the degree of headlines’ accuracy, clickbaitiness, sentiment intensity, irony/sarcasm) and news body content (i.e., reliability of the sources of information mentioned in text, linguistic accuracy, sentiment intensity, and sensationalism).
2022, Danielle Caled, Paula Carvalho, Mário J. Silva, “MINT - Mainstream and Independent News Text Corpus”, in Vládia Pinheiro, Pablo Gamallo, Raquel Amaro, Carolina Scarton, Fernando Batista, Diego Silva, Catarina Magro, Hugo Pinto, editors, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 15th International Conference, PROPOR 2022, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 21–23, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Springer, →ISBN, section “Resources and Evaluation”, page 30Synonyms: clickbaitness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of clickbaitness.
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