In this research we study the process by which social media posts are created and shared during live political debates. Using data from over 9.5 million Tweets posted during and shortly after four key debates leading up to the 2016 Presidential election, we test a series of hypotheses about how...

In recent years, ad blocking has become a significant threat to advertising supported publishers. Adblockers typically negotiate with publishers, allowing some ads to go through in return for a payment, a practice called "whitelisting'' in the industry. This paper builds an analytic model to...

We model competition among news providers as a contest where each firm chooses to publish on a topic from a large pool of topics with different prior success probabilities. If a topic is successful, firms that chose to publish on it share a fixed reward. We explore how increased competition (as...