In 2020 the Australian Communication and Media Authority released a research paper outlining a new framework for measuring news media diversity in Australia (ACMA, 2020). The paper, titled News in Australia: Diversity and Localism – News measurement framework, draws upon the Napoli (1999)...

R&D manipulation prevails in firms' application for high-tech enterprise certification. This paper provides evidence on how media coverage significantly inhibits firms' R&D manipulation behaviour by increasing citizens' concerns. Among all the media reports, original reports and in-depth reports...

This study describes the findings of a survey of adolescents’ aged 12-19 in Ado-Ekiti. The survey examines the influence of the mass media – radio, television and the print on adolescent sexual behaviour. The underlying propositions are that modern and western ideas communicated via the mass...

We build a model of media bias in which consumers with heterogeneous beliefs do not know whether the media firm (i) is biased and (ii) has received an informative signal (“news”). The firm submits a report to consumers, who may in turn invest in verification and leave if supposed news is...

Present paper is to understand the impact of OTT media service consumption on the use of the internet and comparing OTT service consumption and internet use on the lockdown period against pre-pandemic period.Quarterly secondary data from the year 2019 to 2020 are collected from the Indian...

This paper presents a simple formal theoretical model to explain why citizens in authoritarian regimes trust the illiberal official media more than the commercial media. Media trust is defined as changes in the citizen's belief based on good or bad news from the media. Using this definition, the...

While research on traditional media brands has increased in recent years, few studies examine news media brands and their brand strategies, particularly distinctive brand associations unrelated to media brand content and their impact on audience media brand choice and attention. Numerous studies...