COM 350 Age of Information

1. Chan Ruiyu Rachel
ChiaWen Jie Christopher
Seet Chin Ming
Serena NeoWei Zhen

3. ● Singaporean politician
● 3rd Prime Minister of
Singapore
● Past ministerial
positions:
Member of Parliament
Minister for Finance
(2001 - 2007)
Deputy Prime Minister
(1990 - 2004)

4. SOURCES

5. Personal Social Media Handles
Traditional News Companies Websites
Foreign News Companies Websites
Singapore Citizen Journalism sites and blogs
Government Websites

6. Personal Social Media Handles:
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

7. Traditional News Companies Websites:
StraitsTimes, Channel News Asia
Foreign News Companies Websites:
BBC, NYTimes

8. Singapore Citizen Journalism sites and blogs:
The Real Singapore,The HeartTruths,Yawning Bread

9. Government websites:
People’s Action Party [PAP], Prime Minister’s Office website

10. Social Media
● Personal Posts
● Diplomatic / BusinessTrips
● Social Relations
● Public ServiceAnnouncements
Traditional Media: Personal Movement Updates
Citizen Journalism: Opinion Pieces / Discussion

17. Posts signing off with “-LHL” are
claimed to be personally posted
by him
Highest level of new content
regarding LHL, updated daily
Page Likes: 380K
PeopleTalking AboutThis:
39.2K

18. ATTENTION

24. CONTROVERSY:
ROY NGERNG

26. ● Crowdfunding
$70,000 to support
Roy Ngerng
● Story picked up by
foreign news
companies like
Bloomberg as well

27. Page likes: approx. 380 k
vs
Singaporean FB users: approx. 3.2 million
Approx. 11.8% penetration

28. Do these comments look normal?