The spread of propaganda, misinformation, and biased narratives from autocratic regimes, especially on social media, is …

In this chapter we survey the empirical literature on media bias, with a focus on partisan and ideological biases …. First, we discuss the methods used to measure the relative positions of media outlets. We divide bias into two categories … media outlets with other actors, measures based on the intensity of media coverage, and measures based on tone. In the …

-a-vis such discourses of globalization, capitalism and media monopoly …The media are an integral aspect of the society and their influence on our lives cannot be denied. Gradually, as the … international media have become highly concentrated and integrated, this hold has increased manifold. The media have a unique …

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 Games and FIFA World Cups. Then, we estimate the effect of this media …

years. This paper provides a new method to estimate media bias using a structural topic model and cosine similarity to test … assumption that a) potential media bias is demand-driven and b) election results can be used as a proxy for reader beliefs, the …

This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The … key elements in this relationship are the media's role as the provider of information to voters about government action … and the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are. We show that more media activity and more …

We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to … then estimate slant by using the number of mentions that each public intellectual receives in each media outlet. Second, we … media are quite centrist, with very few outlets being statistically distinguishable from the middle of Australian politics …