The media report news that in turn influences behaviors. This news is drawn from a set of available information. In this paper, we study how the set of information is "exante" affected by anticipated media coverages. First, we take an exogenous but anticipated shock of media coverage: Olympic...

We report on a comparative study of online search behavior and the traditional industrial era media of metropolitan newspapers and primetime broadcast television. Does the public sphere look any different when viewed through a typical search engine? From data collected in 2006 and 2007 we find...

When commitment is lacking, intertemporal trade is facilitated with the use of exchange media — interpreted broadly to include monetary and collateral assets. We study the properties of a model commonly used to motivate monetary exchange, extended to include a physical asset whose expected...

Applying a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, we investigate whether Russian blogs represent an alternative public sphere distinct from web-based Russian government information sources and the mainstream media. Based on data collected over a one-year period (December 2010...