clickbaitiness

English

Alternative forms

• clickbaityness

Etymology

From clickbaity +‎ -ness.

Noun

clickbaitiness (uncountable)

1. (informal) Synonym of clickbaitness
   • 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 2:

     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.

   • 2020 November 3, Jack Nicas, “YouTube Cut Down Misinformation. Then It Boosted Fox News.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-03:

     “Clickbaitiness is still really important, as it was in 2016,” Mr. [Guillaume] Chaslot said.

   • 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 30:

     Questions 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).