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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024
) the effects were similar independent of video content and impression assignment strategy. However, we also found some …
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Social recognition : experimental evidence from blood donors
Götte, Lorenz; Tripodi, Egon - 2022
Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments among members of Italy's main blood donors association, testing social recognition both through social media and peer groups. We experimentally disentangle visibility concerns and peer comparisons, and we...
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Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets
Freitag, Julian; Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021
We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the political position of news outlets from the politicians'...
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Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content
Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021
The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media … bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias – i.e., bias in the … amount of coverage certain topics or issues receive – on user-generated content platforms. We proceed in two steps. First, we …
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The Gilets jaunes : offline and online
Boyer, Pierre C.; Delemotte, Thomas; Gauthier, Germain; … - 2020
We study the Gilets jaunes movement, which blocked most of France off in November 2018. We first analyze the complementarity/substitutability between the different forms of mobilization and find that blockades were planned online and later reinforced online activism. Second, we do textual...
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Large losses from little lies : randomly assigned opportunity to misrepresent substantially lowers later cooperation and worsens income inequality
Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people's daily interactions. The implications of this new ability to hide one's identity information remain imperfectly understood. Might it be corrosive to human cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a...
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Politics in the Facebook era evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Russo, Antonio; … - 2020
Through social media, politicians can personalize their campaigns and target specific groups of voters with an unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook during the 2016 US presidential campaign. We measure...
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Partisan selective engagement : evidence from Facebook
Garz, Marcel; Sörensen, Jil; Stone, Daniel F. - 2019
This study investigates the effects of variation in "congeniality" of news on Facebook user engagement (likes, shares …, and comments). We compile an original data set of Facebook posts by 84 German news outlets on politicians that were … likes. The within-outlet, within-topic design allows us to infer that the greater engagement with congenial news is likely …
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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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Vax populi : the social costs of online vaccine skepticism
Giaccherini, Matilde; Kopinska, Joanna; Rovigatti, Gabriele - 2022 - Original version: December 2022, this version: March 2023
This paper quantifies the impact of online vaccine skepticism on pediatric vaccine uptake and health outcomes. We propose a novel methodology that combines Natural Language Processing and an instrumental variable strategy that leverages the intransitivity of the social network's connections. By...
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