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    "title": "Clickbait in Hindi News Media : A Preliminary Study",
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    "abstract": "A corpus of Hindi news headlines shared on Twitter was created by collecting tweets of 5 mainstream Hindi news sources for a period of 4 months. 7 independent annotators were recruited to mark the 20 most retweeted news posts by each of the 5 news sources on its clickbait nature. The clickbait score hence generated was assessed for its correlation with interactions on the platform (retweets, favorites, reader replies), tweet word count, and normalized POS (part-of-speech) tag counts in tweets. A positive correlation was observed between readers' interactions with tweets and tweets' clickbait score. Significant correlations were also observed for POS tag counts and clickbait score. The prevalence of clickbait in mainstream Hindi news media was found to be similar to its prevalence in English news media. We hope that our observations would provide a platform for discussions on clickbait in mainstream Hindi news media.",
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                "text": "A corpus of Hindi news headlines shared on Twitter was created by collecting tweets of 5 mainstream Hindi news sources for a period of 4 months. 7 independent annotators were recruited to mark the 20 most retweeted news posts by each of the 5 news sources on its clickbait nature. The clickbait score hence generated was assessed for its correlation with interactions on the platform (retweets, favorites, reader replies), tweet word count, and normalized POS (part-of-speech) tag counts in tweets. A positive correlation was observed between readers' interactions with tweets and tweets' clickbait score. Significant correlations were also observed for POS tag counts and clickbait score. The prevalence of clickbait in mainstream Hindi news media was found to be similar to its prevalence in English news media. We hope that our observations would provide a platform for discussions on clickbait in mainstream Hindi news media.",
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                "text": "A news headline provides a brief introduction to the news story and perhaps more importantly, lays emphasis on the focus and scope of the accompanying news article. A common journalistic advice is to present a clear attention-grabbing headline but to not exaggerate and misreport the news story or mislead the reader. With the advent of social media and news aggregators, newsreaders are encountering headlines from a variety of sources -established traditional publishers, up-and-coming online news sources, individual writers, among others -some of which apply questionable tactics to attract the attention of readers. This bombardment of information has led to an overload and hence readers gravitate towards sensationalism as a valid filter (Molek-Kozakowska, 2013) .",
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                "text": "In the digital media space, catchy headlines that lure readers to click on them and link to accompa-nying articles are called 'clickbait' (Chakraborty et al., 2016; Chen et al., 2015b) . The social media site Facebook has defined clickbait as an implementation of forward referencing -\"when a publisher posts a link with a headline that encourages people to click to see more, without telling them much information about what they will see\" (El-Arini and Tang, 2014) . There is a growing fear that the line between traditional headlines, predatory clickbait and fake news is rapidly blurring (Chen et al., 2015a) . While there is agreement that not all catchy headlines are malicious, provided the corresponding article satisfies the information gap in the headline with factual reporting (Rony et al., 2017) , the concern raised in journalistic circles is the intent to misuse literary techniques and mislead readers for mere profit. Additionally, one needs to look into whether the traffic generated by clickbait headlines with minimal or untrue information leads to social distrust and affects cognitive processes. That is, are clickbait akin in nature to rumors and half-truths and more importantly, what is the impact of headline-only-readers (as reported by the satirical news site Science Post, which posted a catchy headline with nonsensical article content and found that nearly 46,000 shared the articlewithout even opening the article linked to the headline) 1 who could propagate misinformation by filling in the knowledge gaps by unverified intuitions and information from uncertified sources.",
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                "text": "The existing body of research on clickbait is overwhelmingly focused on the English language, except a few notable studies (Orosa et al., 2017; Gabielkov et al., 2016) . This includes research on clickbait's reach, impact and its detection. In this preliminary study, we extend the English language clickbait headlines analysis to Hindi. The interest is to understand whether journalists from non-English papers apply clickbait as strategy, as was found in a study of 28 EU news sources (Orosa et al., 2017) . By also considering the sharing behavior of headline readers, the aim is to understand relations between the demand-supply of clickbait headlines.",
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                "text": "We have reported the findings of a pilot study conducted on news headlines shared by five mainstream Hindi news sources on Twitter. In the country where the study was conducted, approximately 40% of the population's mother tongue is Hindi 2 . All the recruited annotators had Hindi as their native tongue and English as a secondary language. The large and rapidly growing reader-base which is increasingly present on social media, places the relevance of this study.",
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                "text": "We have annotated the most retweeted news headlines of the five selected news sources on its clickbait-nature and have done POS tagging of tweets' text. Through a detailed correlation analysis of the 'clickbait-score' generated through manual annotation, with tweets' interaction parameters (likes, retweets, replies), text word count and normalized POS tag counts, we hope to understand the existence and reach of clickbait in Hindi news media. The need to understand reader's reading behavior is important for a deeper discussion on the proliferation of clickbait, as studies have shown the impact of clickbait in causing higher stress levels and lowering productivity (Mark, 2014) .",
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                "text": "Hindi news publishers with text as their primary medium were selected based on their popularity on social media. The selected news sources included: BBC Hindi, Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Hindustan and Navbharat Times. The tweets from the respective publishers' Twitter handles were scraped for a period of 4 months (May, 2020 till the end of August, 2020). Besides the tweeted text, information was also collected on each tweet's interactions on the platform, quantified by the number of readers' replies, retweets and favorites. The usage of mentions and hashtags in the tweets were also recorded. The scraped tweets were filtered to remove instances of polls, cartoons, images and videos. Tweets that were replies to other users were also excluded from the corpus. After filtering, the generated corpus had around 52,000 tweets of definite news headlines invariably accompanied by a link to a news article on the publisher's website 3 . The corpus was further processed to remove mentions and hashtags used at the end of tweets to promote them on the platform. The few instances where mentions or hashtags were used in running text of headlines were not removed as doing so would have disrupted the semantic structure of the tweet. This corpus was sorted according to the number of retweets and 20 top tweets were selected for each of the 5 news publishers. No particular filter was applied on the topic of the news headline, in this preliminary study.",
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                "text": "7 independent bi-lingual annotators (age: \u03bc = 31.6 years, \u03c3 = 13.5 years) with Hindi as their native tongue and English as a secondary language were provided with standard English definitions and English examples of clickbait and non-clickbait headlines. The annotators were provided with only the Devanagari script text of the 100 most retweeted Hindi news headlines presented in a random order and asked to rate each of them on a 5-point linear scale -[0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1] where 0 implies not clickbait at all and 1 implies strongly clickbait. The annotation setup was similar to existing research on English news tweets (Potthast et al., 2018) , as standard definitions and examples of clickbait were provided to the annotators before they assigned a clickbait-score to presented headlines based on their own perception. The responses were saved and mean of all the 7 annotators' response was taken to generate a 'clickbait score' for each tweet.",
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                "section": "Clickbait Annotation",
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                "text": "Post annotation, correlation of the generated clickbait score with different parameters of tweets, including the number of replies, retweets, favorites and text word count were studied. A POS tagger based on the Hidden Markov Model was used to assign part of speech tags following the Viterbi algorithm (Ekbal et al., 2007) . POS tag counts in tweets were normalized for tweets' word count to isolate the relation between POS tags' occurrence and clickbait score. The correlation between normalized POS tag counts and clickbait score was studied and reported.",
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                "section": "Data Analysis",
                "sec_num": "2.3"
            },
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                "text": "The D'Agostino-Pearson Test was conducted on all distributions in the dataset to check for normality, a pre-condition for correlation analysis. All the distributions in our assessment were found to be normal, hence Pearson's test was conducted to evaluate correlation between different variables. The number of annotators were low, but the Cronbach's alpha was calculated for the 7 independent annotators to check for internal consistency and the annotations were found to be consistent (\u03b1 \u2265 0.8).",
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                "text": "The average clickbait score for all the annotated Hindi news tweets was \u03bc = 0.433, \u03c3 = 0.30. BBC Hindi had the highest average clickbait score (\u03bc = 0.59, \u03c3 = 0.30), while Dainik Bhaskar had the lowest average clickbait score (\u03bc = 0.22, \u03c3 = 0.21). Clickbait scores of all the news sources in the dataset are illustrated (in figure 1) . 21 out of the 100 most retweeted news headlines had a clickbait score \u2265 0.75, whereas 36 out of the 100 most retweeted news headlines had a clickbait score \u2264 0.25.",
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                "section": "Results",
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            },
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                "text": "A positive correlation was observed between clickbait score of tweets and all their interaction parameters on Twitter -replies (r = 0.25), retweets (r = 0.19) and favorites (r = 0.18). While the correlation was strongly negative (r = -0.39) between the word count of tweets and their clickbait score. As would make intuitive sense, the interaction parameters in themselves were very strongly correlated with each other (r \u2265 0.7). The findings are illustrated in table 2. Upon normalizing POS tag counts in each tweet and assessing its correlation with clickbait score, VAUX (r = 0.18), WQ (r = 0.44), NNP (r = 0.17) and QO (r = 0.10) were found to be positively correlated with clickbait score, while INJ (r = -0.18), DEM (r = -0.21) and SYM (r = -0.25) were found to be negatively correlated with clickbait score. No significant correlation was found for other POS tags. The results are illustrated in table 3 in a categorization of POS tags based on correlation with clickbait score.",
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