Himelboim I focuses on studying the structure of the international communication network built by news media organisations as well as the use of external hyperlinks. The article also discusses the use of news media via internet and its capable contribution in the social context despite the geographic and political barriers for international information streams . Moreover, the network access, the preferential attachment and the world system theories are also covered.

This article is easily readable and informative because of its logical structure. Besides, the key findings are solidified by statistics and figures. The author also expands his findings to different aspects based on network theories and identifies barriers to this type of information sharing.

However, there’s still no answer to the reason why there are so many countries still not trying to tap into this beneficial and resourceful communication network. A limitation within this paper is that some countries attracted more hyperlinks because major stories were broken during the collecting data period.

 Reference

Himelboim, I 2010, ‘The International Network Structure of News Media: An Analysis of Hyperlinks Usage in News Web sites’, Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 54, no.3,pp. 373-390