Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets

Freitag, Julian; Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes

doi:10.1016/j.infoecopol.2021.100926

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“…It should also be noted that the problem of communicator platforms affects not only ordinary users, but also politicians. The editorial policy of large media forces politicians and public figures to pay more and more attention to social networks to promote alternative or non-mainstream projects (Freitag et al, 2021). Which makes social and political life vulnerable to control by platform owners.…”

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Social Determination Factor In The Implementation Of State Information Policy Tasks

Krasnova¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The article examines some problems in the management of social processes, social adaptation and determination in solving a number of urgent tasks of the current state information policy of Russia. The main attention is paid to the analysis of the existing dependence of the Russian information society on foreign information resources and technologies, which qualitatively affect the state of information interests and information security of an individual, social groups and society as a whole. The author emphasizes the complexity and, at the same time, the need to update the management of the processes of social determination in the aspect of the proposed article. The emphasis is on the need to expand the segment of domestic digital resources, not only due to the qualitative improvement of content, but also quantitative superiority. The question of personality transformation is touched upon, the process goes into the sphere of technogenicity. The variety of platforms and resources ultimately leads to confusion, misunderstanding of who can be trusted, and in most cases the content is either very recreational in nature or does not meet basic quality requirements. This is why legislative regulation of the segment is necessary, especially in the area of content control. Also, the motivation of creators is equally important in this field. Digitalization is not only an important element in increasing the efficiency of the modern economy, but also a promising tool for public administration.

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Social Determination Factor In The Implementation Of State Information Policy Tasks

Krasnova¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Studies of the extent to which internet users who hold a clear political position (politicians, political bloggers, etc.) share contents that match their own political position report overwhelming evidence of selective sharing of like-minded content on Twitter and Facebook (An et al 2014;Aruguete and Calvo, 2018;Freitag et al, 2021;Shin and Thorson, 2017).…”

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“…Drawing upon the assumption that news production in each media reflects consumer preferences (Gentzkow and Shapiro, 2010;Freitag et al, 2021), Gentzkow and Shapiro (2011) present a method to determine media slant. They approximate it as the share of republican readers compared to the total audience for that media (or the sum of republican and democrat consumers).…”

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Partisan selective exposure in news consumption

Lumeau

2022

Information Economics and Policy

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Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content

Kerkhof

Münster

2019

Journal of Media Economics

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The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias -i.e., bias in the amount of coverage certain topics or issues receive -on user-generated content platforms. We proceed in two steps. First, we focus on a sample of homogeneous observations and control for observable differences. Second, we compare the coverage of our observations between different language versions of the same platform in a difference-in-differences framework, which allows us to disentangle coverage bias from unobserved heterogeneity between observations. We apply our procedure to Wikipedia and examine whether it has a coverage bias in its biographies of German (and French) Members of Parliament (MPs). Our analysis reveals a small to medium size coverage bias against MPs from the center-left parties in Germany and in France. A plausible explanation are partisan contributions to the Wikipedia biographies, as we show by analyzing patterns of authorship and Wikipedia's talk pages for the German case. Practical implications of our results include raising users' awareness of coverage bias when searching for and processing information obtained on user-generated content platforms.

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Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Social Determination Factor In The Implementation Of State Information Policy Tasks

Social Determination Factor In The Implementation Of State Information Policy Tasks

Partisan selective exposure in news consumption

Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content

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