Political Leaning and Coverage Sentiment: Are Conservative Newspapers More Negative Toward Women?*

Shor, Eran

doi:10.1111/ssqu.12563

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“…We then tested the ability of this system to identify negative and positive events in the lives of several celebrities. We found that sudden shifts in sentiment indeed corresponded with these events, providing support for the validity of the sentiment measure (see also Shor, 2018).…”

Section: Dependent Variable: Newspaper Sentimentsupporting

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The price of greater representation: A cross-national analysis of parliamentary representation and media coverage sentiment for women

Shor

Miltsov

2020

Newspaper Research Journal

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Previous research suggested that news media coverage tone tends to become more negative for successful women in politics (but not for successful men) when compared with less successful and well-known women. This study tests this in 17 countries. Specifically, it examines relationships between greater parliamentary representation of women and the coverage tone in articles on women in that country through a computational analysis of millions of persons’ names in more than 1,000 newspapers. Growth in parliamentary representation of women is associated with more negative coverage, lending support for explanations that suggest reactionary responses to perceived breaching of gendered social hierarchies.

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Section: Dependent Variable: Newspaper Sentimentsupporting

confidence: 71%

The price of greater representation: A cross-national analysis of parliamentary representation and media coverage sentiment for women

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Miltsov

2020

Newspaper Research Journal

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“…The data is free, publicly available, and considered as an important source of information for researchers from different disciplines. Many previous studies collected information from ACS and leveraged with Twitter data to analyze sentiment of the people in the arena of public health [30] , urban spaces [40] , politics [41] , [42] , disasters management [43] , racial conflicts [32] , [44] , and gender disparity [45] . Thus, linking Twitter data with Coronavirus data is a common practice among the researchers to evaluate the impacts of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics on the sentiments of the people towards a subject of interest.…”

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Socioeconomic factors analysis for COVID-19 US reopening sentiment with Twitter and census data

Rahman

Ali

et al. 2021

Heliyon

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Investigating and classifying sentiments of social media users (e.g., positive, negative) towards an item, situation, and system are very popular among researchers. However, they rarely discuss the underlying socioeconomic factor associations for such sentiments. This study attempts to explore the factors associated with positive and negative sentiments of the people about reopening the economy, in the United States (US) amidst the COVID-19 global crisis. It takes into consideration the situational uncertainties (i.e., changes in work and travel patterns due to lockdown policies), economic downturn and associated trauma, and emotional factors such as depression. To understand the sentiment of the people about the reopening economy, Twitter data was collected, representing the 50 States of the US and Washington D.C, the capital city of the US. State-wide socioeconomic characteristics of the people (e.g., education, income, family size, and employment status), built environment data (e.g., population density), and the number of COVID-19 related cases were collected and integrated with Twitter data to perform the analysis. A binary logit model was used to identify the factors that influence people toward a positive or negative sentiment. The results from the logit model demonstrate that family households, people with low education levels, people in the labor force, low-income people, and people with higher house rent are more interested in reopening the economy. In contrast, households with a high number of family members and high income are less interested in reopening the economy. The accuracy of the model is reasonable (i.e., the model can correctly classify 56.18% of the sentiments). The Pearson chi-squared test indicates that this model has high goodness-of-fit. This study provides clear insights for public and corporate policymakers on potential areas to allocate resources, and directional guidance on potential policy options they can undertake to improve socioeconomic conditions, to mitigate the impact of pandemic in the current situation, and in the future as well.

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“…Other studies also point out that the political slant of the media may condition the portrayal of women politicians depending on the party to which they belong. For Shor (2019), there is mild support for the idea that relatively liberal newspapers are more likely to cover women's issues in a positive light. Indeed, the political affiliation of the media outlet may be one of the factors that helps to understand the differences between media coverage of male and female politicians, but Shor et al (2014) found that both conservative and liberal newspapers are more likely to cover men.…”

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How Are Women Politicians Treated in the Press? The Case of Spain, France and the United Kingdom

Fernández-Rovira

Luque

2021

Journalism and Media

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Women politicians have been discriminated against or negatively valued under stereotypes in media coverage and have been given a secondary role compared to male politicians. The article proposes an analysis of the treatment given by digital media to women political leaders. They are from different parties in three countries and the aim is to identify the polarity (positive, neutral or negative) of the information published about them in the media. The text focuses on the cases of Anne Hidalgo and Marine Le Pen, from France, Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May, from the United Kingdom and Ada Colau and Inés Arrimadas, from Spain. The study develops a computerised sentiment analysis of the information published in two leading digital newspapers in each country, during the month of November 2019. The research, with the analysis of 1100 journalistic pieces, shows that the polarity or valence of the women analysed is predominantly neutral and positive and that the journalistic genres do not determine the media representation of the women studied. On the contrary, the country of study does have a predominant incidence on the way in which women politicians are represented, while the relationship of affinity or antipathy of the Spanish media with the women politicians studied is significant.

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Political Leaning and Coverage Sentiment: Are Conservative Newspapers More Negative Toward Women?*

Cited by 11 publications

References 48 publications

The price of greater representation: A cross-national analysis of parliamentary representation and media coverage sentiment for women

The price of greater representation: A cross-national analysis of parliamentary representation and media coverage sentiment for women

Socioeconomic factors analysis for COVID-19 US reopening sentiment with Twitter and census data

How Are Women Politicians Treated in the Press? The Case of Spain, France and the United Kingdom

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