Search Results - subject:"Media coverage"

Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail : An Empirical Study of Senate Elections and Media Coverage

García-Jimeno, Camilo - 2017

We study the strategic interaction between the media and Senate candidates during elections. While the media is instrumental for candidates to communicate with voters, candidates and media outlets have conflicting preferences over the contents of the reporting. In competitive electoral...

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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election

Allcott, Hunt - 2017

Following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories ("fake news"), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the economics of fake news and present new data on its consumption prior to the election. Drawing on web browsing data,...

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The Manifesto-Media Link: How Mass Media Mediate Manifesto Messages

Merz, Nicolas - 2017

This study analyzes whether media coverage covers messages from parties’ electoral programs (manifestos). Electoral … media cover parties’ electoral programs during the electoral campaign. If media coverage did not reflect parties’ electoral … concept of the manifesto-media link in order to describe how media coverage can reflect programmatic offers. The manifesto …

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American Partisan Media Consumption and Voting Persuasion Attempts : How 24-Hour Cable News Incites Political Proselytizing

Platzman, Paul - 2017

Since the emergence of partisan cable news networks (CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC) in the mid-1990s, the way many Americans get their political information has changed. Previous research has examined the associations between cable news viewership and individuals' political knowledge, attitudes, and...

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Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail : An Empirical Study of Senate Elections and Media Coverage

García Jimeno, Camilo - 2017

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Tarifkonflikte in den Medien : was prägt die Berichterstattung über Arbeitskämpfe? : eine Studie der Otto Brenner Stiftung

Viehmann, Christina; Jost, Pablo B. - 2017

Warum erlangen manche Tarifauseinandersetzungen hohe öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit, während andere kaum mediale Beachtung finden? Wieso stehen manche Tarifkonflikte in einem günstigeren Licht, während andere eher Ablehnung erfahren? In der OBS-Studie werden neun Tarifkonflikte untersucht und...

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Gaining voice in the mass media: The effect of parties’ strategies on party–issue linkages in election news coverage

Merz, Nicolas - In: Acta Politica 52 (2017) 4, pp. 436–460

’ issue emphasis in media coverage, and have important implications for parties’ issue strategies, party competition, and the …

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Fake News

Grunewald, Andreas - 2017

In the last decade, social media and the Internet have amplified the possibility to spread false information, a.k.a. fake news, which has become a serious threat to the credibility of politicians, organizations, and other decision makers. This paper proposes a framework for investigating the...

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Sector News Sentiment Indices

Borovkova, Svetlana - 2017

We present the sector-based news sentiment indices, which track, for a given industry or sector, the current media sentiment about this sector. The sentiment index for a particular sector has a natural relationship to the basket of stocks of publicly traded companies operating in this sector or...

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Media Coverage and Food Commodities : Agricultural Futures Prices and Volatility Effects

Almánzar, Miguel - 2017

We examine how media coverage of fluctuations in the price of agricultural commodities affects these prices and their … concentrated in soybeans and maize. We find robust evidence that media coverage decreases volatility for these agricultural … commodities; however, the increase is than the decrease. Our results suggest that media coverage increases periods of normal …

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