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Waves in The Communication Flow. The Interplay of Constitution, Legislative, and Governmental Institutions in Mass Media

Haase, Fee-Alexandra - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2007) 5, pp. 151-167

This is an international set of case studies in institutionalized communication control regarding Mass Media, comparing … and function of mass communication and related values in different countries. Our interest is to demonstrate the … guidelines in terms of the use and protection of communication, (2) National organizations that provide additional guidelines and …

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Who trusts Berlusconi? : an econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena

Sabatini, Fabio - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first econometric investigation into the role of television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust in television to be the most significant predictor of...

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Mass media effects on the production of information : evidence from non-governmental organization (NGO) reports

Couttenier, Mathieu; Hatte, Sophie - 2013 - This version: February 2013

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...

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News Media and Crime Perceptions : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mastrorocco, Nicola - 2018

In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment – the staggered introduction of the Digital TV signal in Italy – to measure the...

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How the media matters for the economic vote : evidence from Britain

Basu, Chitralekha - 2022

This study uses data from the 2005-10 British Election Panel Study to examine the effect of media coverage on voter evaluations of the incumbent government following the 2007-8 financial crisis. By combining sentiment analysis of newspaper content with an instrumental variables approach, I show...

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Do people demand fact-checked news? : evidence from U.S. democrats

Anand Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021

In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an...

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Cautionary Tales : Celebrities, the News Media, and Participation in Tax Amnesties

Garz, Marcel; Pagels, Verena - 2021

This study uses an original state-level data set to investigate whether press coverage on trials for tax evasion by celebrities affects the likelihood that other tax payers participate in Germany’s tax amnesty program. To identify the causal effect, we use exogenous variation in the reporting,...

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News media and crime perceptions : evidence from a natural experiment

Matrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi - 2018

In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment - the staggered introduction of the Digital TV signal in Italy - to measure the effect...

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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 investigated for criminal offenses from January 2012 to June...

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Do people value more informative news?

Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2019

We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news. Drawing on representative samples of the U.S. population with more than 15,000 respondents in total, we measure and experimentally vary people's beliefs about the...

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