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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"partisan media"”.
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In Viewership We Trust? Exploring Relationships Between Partisan Cable News and Mass Partisan Sentiment
… trends: namely, sharply intensifying negative partisanship, partisan patterns of media trust, increasingly partisan content on cable news networks, and increased viewership of these networks. A large portion of this literature, as well as journalistic research, has predominantly focused on …
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Identities and issue opinions : learning from climate change
… drive people's opinions about particular issues: partisan media content; the interests of social in-groups; and opinion cues from fellow partisans. Overall, I find that partisan identities are likely to have important effects through the media content that they expose Americans to. Other, more …
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Essays in Information Economics
… essay studies manipulation of information by partisan media. The recent increase in partisan media has generated interest in what drives media outlets to become more partisan. I develop a model to study the role of diffusion of information by word of mouth. In the model, a media outlet designs …
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Essays in political economy of media and communication
… thesis consists of three chapters on the role of media and communication in forming political opinions of news consumers and politicians. In the first chapter, I study the causal link between the public's self-selective exposure to like-minded partisan media and polarization. I first present a …
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The manifestation and potential of constructive journalism in South African digital news
… being misinterpreted or manipulated by partisan media requires of journalists to adhere to rigorous journalistic norms proposed in constructive journalism.
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Enhancing democratic communication? Television and partisan politics in Palestine
… this thesis focuses on the most important media in the Palestinian context, television, which has the widest reach and influence among Palestinians. The main aim of the thesis is to investigate the question of how far, in the perceptions of Palestinians, the two television channels – …
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Partisanship, Friendship, and Censorship in Online Social Networks
With the widespread adoption of social media in today’s society, it has become increasingly important to understand users’ behaviors and the underlying factors driving these behaviors. This thesis considers different aspects of this problem, from tie formation to influence campaigns, examining …
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Essays in Industrial Organization and Political Economy
… chapter concerns how ideologically-opposite media firms report a particular event to maximize their payoffs from advocating their ideology and strengthen reader trust which increases if the report is proximate to their beliefs. I use these facts to develop a Hotelling's linear city model of …