News Consumption and Its Unpleasant Side Effect

Unpleasant Supply - Side Arithmetics of Fiscal Austerity

News Consumption and Media Bias

B in the market for news is well-documented. Recent research in economics explains the phenomenon by assuming that consumers want to read (watch) news that is consistent with their tastes or prior beliefs rather than the truth. The present paper builds on this idea but recognizes that (i) besides “biased” consumers, there are also “conscientious” consumers whose sole interest is in discovering ...

The Other Side of Bad News

I arrived home from work to find my husband uncharacteristically sitting at the dining room table, waiting for me to walk through the door. He said, “Sweetheart, I think there is something wrong with me.”My heart dropped as I noticed the left-sided Horner syndrome that had developed overnight and as I watched his face turn bright red when he lifted his left arm. He complained that the left side...

Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook.

The advent of social media and microblogging platforms has radically changed the way we consume information and form opinions. In this paper, we explore the anatomy of the information space on Facebook by characterizing on a global scale the news consumption patterns of 376 million users over a time span of 6 y (January 2010 to December 2015). We find that users tend to focus on a limited set o...

lexical decomposition awareness and its effect on delayed receptive and productive recognition and recall of vocabulary knowledge of morphologically complex english words: an iranian efl context

abstract lexical knowledge of complex english words is an important part of language skills and crucial for fluent language use (nation, 2001). the present study, thus, was an attempt to assess the role of morphological decomposition awareness as a vocabulary learning strategy on learners’ productive and receptive recall and recognition of complex english words. so 90 sophomores (female and ma...