We examine the influence of political connections on media slant for a sample of Chinese listed firms. We find that … association is more pronounced when firms are located in provinces with more government intervention and when the media are state …-controlled (compared with market-oriented media). We further examine two explanations for the positive association between political …

year, we seek to establish whether bloggers are mainly involved in social networking or are part of the media industry. We … our analysis confirm that activity and reciprocation both play a role in the dynamics of social media …

the social networking and media aspects of blogging …

reciprocate more, but tend to receive more comments per posts. -- Blogs ; Bloggers ; Community ; Friendship ; Internet … ; LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/ ; Reciprocity ; Social Media ; Social Networks ; Social Norms ; Web 2.0 ; Weblogs …

much greater risk from digital piracy than other media. At the same time, changing technology has created new opportunities …

large social media platforms. Using a difference-in- differences framework, we measure the causal impact of the German law …