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Does Social Media cause Polarization? Evidence from access to Twitter Echo Chambers during the 2019 Argentine Presidential Debate
Di Tella, Rafael; Galvez, Ramiro H.; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
media status (Twitter). Our treatments mimic two strategies often suggested as a way to limit polarization on social media … study a group of non-Twitter users in order to have a simple, offline benchmark of the debate's impact on polarization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696367
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The Price of Political Opposition : Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2009
In 2004, the Chávez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters whom had attempted to remove him from office throughout the government bureaucracy, allegedly to identify and punish these voters. We match the list of petition signers distributed by the government to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463725
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The Perils of Voter Mobilization
Marx, Benjamin - 2017
Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted participation but also decreased trust in electoral institutions after the election, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453768
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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2020
event on public discourse and voters' support for far-right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users … Twitter text becomes on average more similar to that of the main far-right party, AfD, while the opposite happens for some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479348
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The Effect of Social Media on Elections : Evidence from the United States
Fujiwara, Thomas; Müller, Karsten; Schwarz, Carlo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation in the number of Twitter … users across counties induced by early adopters at the 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, a key event in Twitter … before the launch of Twitter. Our results indicate that Twitter lowered the Republican vote share in the 2016 and 2020 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533398
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Social Media, Sentiment and Public Opinions : Evidence from #Brexit and #USElection
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2018
This paper studies information diffusion in social media and the role of bots in shaping public opinions. Using Twitter … on Twitter is largely complete within 1-2 hours. Stronger interactions across agents with similar beliefs are consistent … suggest that the aggressive use of Twitter bots, coupled with the fragmentation of social media and the role of sentiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453088