What is the Influence of News Media on People’s Perception of Corruption? Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches

Abstract

Does the source of one’s news media have a systematic effect on one’s perception of political corruption? While numerous studies have investigated the extent to which media affects trust in institutions, or the polarization of political values, this study shifts the focus on to how one’s media source conceived here as social media versus traditional media affects the perception of corruption in 2 ways. First, we hypothesize that citizens who consume their news predominately from social media will have higher perceptions of political corruption than consumers of more traditional media sources. Second, we hypothesize that perceptions among social media consumers will be more polarized. Specifically, we argue that the gap in corruption perception between supporters of government and opposition political parties will be larger among social media consumers compared to traditional news consumers. We test our hypotheses using newly collected survey data from the European Quality of Government Index survey from 2017, which contains nearly 78,000 respondents in 21 countries in the European Union. Estimating our model with both parametric and non-parametric approaches, we find robust empirical support for two of our 3 hypotheses.

Measurement and Trend Analysis of New Media Coverage Topics Based on Comment Big Data Mining

“…e text preprocessing stage is the process of transforming text data into structured data. Firstly, this paper uses Python new media crawler technology to form a data set of the crawled new media news, then Chinese word segmentation is carried out on the text, the text is cut into scattered independent word sets, part of speech tagging is carried out on each word, and a stop vocabulary is constructed to remove irrelevant interference words [26]. News text has no fixed structure, no uniform format, and cannot be directly identified.…”

Applying Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of the Lava Jato Operation on the Worldwide Governance Indicators in Brazil

“…There are two main reasons to support this hypothesis. First, given that Lavo Jato drove significant news coverage of corruption in Petrobras and across Brazil’s government, especially in a time with increased news dissemination through social media, public perceptions of corruption will be significant (Charron & Annoni, 2021). This is further supported by the fact that several corruption indicators in Brazil decreased after 2014, 6 except for voice and accountability.…”

Main Trends in Development of Media and Internet Resources in the Independent Kyrgyzstan

“…Internetmass media (also web-means of mass information, online-means of mass information), a kind of resources on the Internet, performing the functions of mass media, in modern conditions. Internet media such as YouTube, Twitter, blogs or Facebook (Charron & Annoni, 2021), as well as traditional media newspapers, magazines, television, radio broadcasting, produce information, created by a 1) Preserve all the media content;…”