Different ‘‘paradigmatic’’ approaches to explain news effects on voting may supplement each other, because their starting points are based on different news types in political campaign news: news on issue positions of parties, news on real-world developments, news on support or criticism for parties, and news on success and failure of parties. Daily content analysis data and a weekly multiwave ...

It is expected that stock prices can be aaected by the local and overseas political and economic events. We extract events from the nancial news of Chinese local newspapers which are available on the web, the news are matched against stock prices databases and a new method is proposed for the mining of frequent temporal patterns.

Where do partisans get their election news, and does news consumption influence their candidate assessments? To shed light on these questions, we track the web browsing behavior of a national sample during the 2016 presidential campaign and then merge these data with a panel survey administered in August and November. We find that exposure to election news is polarized; partisans gravitate to “...

This article analyzes the news coverage of the 2004 European Parliamentary (EP) elections in all 25 member states of the European Union (EU). It provides a unique pan-European overview of the campaign coverage based on an analysis of three national newspapers and two television newscasts in the two weeks leading up to the elections. On average, the elections were more visible in the new 10 memb...

This paper explores methods for increasing performance of CRF models, with a particular concern for transfer learning. We consider in particular the transfer case from political news to hard-to-tag business news, and show the effectiveness of several methods, including a novel semi-supervised approach.

In this paper, we are interested in understanding the interrelationships between mainstream and social media in forming public opinion during mass crises, specifically in regards to how events are framed in the mainstream news and on social networks and to how the language used in those frames may allow to infer political slant and partisanship. We study the lingual choices for political agenda...

Purpose – To suggest methods and approaches to the study of relationships between the blogsphere and news, and to show, through a preliminary study, how the blogsphere makes particular political contributions through the manner in which social issues are discussed. Design/methodology/approach – The article provides a set of research questions as well as general methodological approaches to unde...

Many prominent social theorists contend that memberships in voluntary associations make major contributions to making citizens more engaged with democracy. Although substantial attention has been directed at the potential role of sports groups, previous studies using survey data have not found membership in sports groups to be associated with political activity. New Zealand presents an importan...

What is the e¤ect of liberalizing a country’s broadcasting system on the level of information of its citizens? To analyze this question, we …rst construct a model of state monopoly broadcasting where the government selects the amount of television news coverage of di¤erent public policy outcomes, and then sets public policy and political rents. Voters vote retrospectively given the news provide...