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Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention
Gaudeul, Alexia; Mathieu, Laurence; Peroni, Chiara - 2009
Properties of blogging networks are derived from a model where bloggers devote attention to others, produce content for others, and exchange attention with content within their network of relations. The predictions from the model are tested with a novel dataset from LiveJournal, a major blogging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213425
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Handbook of media economics ; Volume 1B
Anderson, Simon P. (ed.); Waldfogel, Joel (ed.);  … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419940
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Media, domocracy, and government action : prevention vs. palliation in the time of cholera
Choe, Chongwoo; Raschky, Paul A. - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009161534
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Does fleet street shape politics? : Estimating the effect of newspaper coverage about globalization on the support for unemployment insurance
Protte, Benjamin - 2012
In this paper, I quantify the role of media in the formation of support for unemployment insurance. Theory suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490098
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Terrorism and the media
Jetter, Michael - 2014
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012 …. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which … heightened media attention. Second, less attention is devoted to attacks in countries located further away from the US. Third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409821
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The Media and the Financial Markets : A Review
Raimondo, Carlo - 2019
An increasing stream of literature about the role of the media in finance has been developed in recent years. The … analysis of soft information, including newspaper articles and other media-generated content. This paper aims at putting … forward knowledge about the media's role in finance, leveraging on a large variety of research from the field of finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902944
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Valuing 'Free' Media Across Countries in GDP
Nakamura, Leonard I. - 2015
“Free” consumer entertainment and information from the Internet, largely supported by advertising revenues, has had a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019264
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Terrorism and the Media
Jetter, Michael - 2014
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012 …. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which … heightened media attention. Second, less attention is devoted to attacks in countries located further away from the US. Third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046236
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Beyond Borders : Is Media Freedom Contagious?
Sobel, Russell S. - 2013
Previous literature stresses the importance of free media for economic development. By its nature TV, radio, and … newspapers cross borders allowing citizens to easily sample media from neighboring countries. This creates pressure for domestic … reform and spreads media freedom between countries. Using spatial econometric techniques, and a sample of 102 countries, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012710799
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Terrorism and the media : the effect of US television coverage on Al-Qaeda attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641575