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Title | ||
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Exploring the Ideological Nature of Journalists' Social Networks on Twitter and Associations with News Story Content. |
Abstract | ||
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The present work proposes the use of social media as a tool for better understanding the relationship between a journalists' social network and the content they produce. Specifically, we ask: what is the relationship between the ideological leaning of a journalist's social network on Twitter and the news content he or she produces? Using a novel dataset linking over 500,000 news articles produced by 1,000 journalists at 25 different news outlets, we show a modest correlation between the ideologies of who a journalist follows on Twitter and the content he or she produces. This research can provide the basis for greater self-reflection among media members about how they source their stories and how their own practice may be colored by their online networks. For researchers, the findings furnish a novel and important step in better understanding the construction of media stories and the mechanics of how ideology can play a role in shaping public information. |
Year | Venue | Field |
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2017 | arXiv: Social and Information Networks | Social network,Political science,Social media,Advertising,Public information,Ideology |
DocType | Volume | Citations |
Journal | abs/1708.06727 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Wihbey | 1 | 2 | 2.05 |
| Thalita Dias Coleman | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Kenneth Joseph | 3 | 9 | 5.91 |
| David Lazer | 4 | 290 | 24.46 |