Previous research showed that political trust declines when politicians debate in uncivil ways. This article extends this by analyzing how the news media’s tendency to focus on and even overstate incivility post-debate coverage affects own credibility. The results of two preregistered survey experiments show politicians’ use decreases their perceived trustworthiness. effects incivility-focused ...

Thepresent study aims to investigate the impact of the virtual news networks onpolitical participation of Iranians in parliamentary election on 26 February2016. The method of...

An important challenge in the process of tracking and detecting the dissemination of misinformation is to understand the gap in the political views between people that engage with the so called ”fake news”. A possible factor responsible for this gap is opinion polarization, which may prompt the general public to classify content that they disagree or want to discredit as fake. In this work, we ...

News and blog websites often have political bias (such as Republican, Democratic) in their articles. Automatic detection of the bias will improve personalized feed and categorization of news and blog articles. Our project aims to predict Republican vs. Democratic bias of news websites and political blogs using the phrases (a.k.a. memes) they quote in their text. We form a bipartite graph of web...

In this era of fake news and political polarization, it is desirable to have a system to enable users to access balanced news content. Current solutions focus on top down, server based approaches to decide whether a news article is fake or biased, and display only trusted news to the end users. In this paper, we follow a different approach to help the users make informed choices about which new...

We present an analytic study on the language of news media in the context of political fact-checking and fake news detection. We compare the language of real news with that of satire, hoaxes, and propaganda to find linguistic characteristics of untrustworthy text. To probe the feasibility of automatic political fact-checking, we also present a case study based on PolitiFact.com using their fact...

This article advances a communicative approach to social capital that views communication as the fundamental source of societal integration. We contend that integration occurring at the system level via news consumption and at the individual level via interpersonal discussion is amplified through ties at the community level. This cross-level interaction is theorized to encourage civic engagemen...

US voters shared large volumes of polarizing political news and information in the form of links to content from Russian, WikiLeaks and junk news sources. Was this low quality political information distributed evenly around the country, or concentrated in swing states and particular parts of the country? In this data memo we apply a tested dictionary of sources about political news and informat...

1 There are different ways of placing sports in social life, and the workplace is one of them. The Scandinavian countries are internationally known for their particular development of company sport. This is linked to the dynamics of Nordic welfare society and political concern about ‘public health’. On the basis of recent Danish research, current practices of company sport are examined. There i...

The present study sought to investigate the extent to which Persian idiomatic expressions would influence the western translators' strategies in providing the ultimate product in English, and it also attempted to uncover the underlying assumptions in target text, then to suggest some weighty strategies to overcome difficulties with translation. For this purpose, the data was analyzed within the...