1.
Donald Trump and the 'Oxygen of Publicity': Branding, Social Media, and Mass Media in the 2016 Presidential Primary Elections
Paper prepared for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2016
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 27 Aug 2016
Working Paper Series
Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
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3,816
2.
The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings
Pennycook, G., Bear, A., Collins, E., & Rand, D. G. The implied truth effect: Attaching warnings to a subset of fake news headlines increases perceived accuracy of headlines without warnings. Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 14 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Regina, Yale University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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3,672
3.
Media as the Fourth Estate of Democracy
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 25 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
Christ University School of Law and Christ University School of Law
Downloads
3,003
4.
Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing
Advances in Political Psychology, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 561
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 02 Aug 2016
Last Revised: 07 Oct 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Tangled Bank Studios and University of Pennsylvania
Downloads
2,918
5.
Government Control of the Media
Journal of Public Economics, vol. 118, pp. 163-171, October 2014.
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 15 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 06 Oct 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads
2,638
6.
Facebook is... Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation
APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 13 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
University of New Mexico - Department of Political Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Downloads
2,400
7.
Ideological Segregation Online and Offline
Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 10-19, Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Working Paper No. 55.
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 13 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Brown University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Ideological Segregation Online and Offline
Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 10-19, Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Working Paper No. 55.
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 13 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Downloads
1,950
Ideological Segregation Online and Offline
NBER Working Paper No. w15916
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 19 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 02 Dec 2015
Downloads
62
Downloads
1,950
8.
Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama's 2012 Speeches: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric
Theory and Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 4(6), 1178-1187.
doi:10.4304/tpls.4.6.1178-1187
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 26 Oct 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Islamic Azad University (IAU) - Tabriz Branch and Islamic Azad University (IAU) - Tabriz Branch
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1,932
9.
Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics
Journal of Public Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 21 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Paris School of Economics (PSE), Sciences Po, Sciences Po and Paris School of Economics (PSE)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics
Journal of Public Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 21 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Downloads
1,924
Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12220
Number of pages: 87
Posted: 15 Aug 2017
Last Revised: 16 Dec 2019
Downloads
1,924
10.
Fighting Misinformation on Social Media Using Crowdsourced Judgments of News Source Quality
Pennycook, G., & Rand. D. G. (2019). Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1806781116
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 17 Feb 2018
Last Revised: 31 Jan 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Regina and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads
1,922
11.
More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 19 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing and Indiana University
Downloads
1,840
12.
Totalitarianism Through Newspeak and Doublethink: An Evaluation Through George Orwell's 1984
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 25 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 13 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Independent
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1,788
13.
Online Political Participation: Slacktivism or Efficiency Increased Activism? Evidence from the Brazilian Ficha Limpa Campaign
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 23 Nov 2012
Working Paper Series
German Development Insitute and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,623
14.
Political Advertising in the 21st Century: The Rise of the YouTube Ad
APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
Washington State University, Wesleyan University - Government and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
1,570
15.
Pre-Primary News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Race: Trump's Rise, Sanders' Emergence, Clinton's Struggle
HKS Working Paper No. 16-023
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 20 Jun 2016
Last Revised: 14 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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1,504
16.
Social Media, News Media and the Stock Market
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 02 Apr 2016
Last Revised: 29 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
Maastricht University - Department of Finance, Imperial College London and University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
Downloads
1,461
17.
Disinformation and Social Bot Operations in the Run Up to the 2017 French Presidential Election
First Monday 22(8) - August 7, 2017
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 01 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 13 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
Downloads
1,380
18.
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
Forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics. DOI/10.1146/annurev-economics-081919-050239
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 22 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
Paris School of Economics (PSE), Institute for Political Economy and Governance, Barcelona and Institute of Political Economy and Governance
There are 2 versions of this paper
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
Forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics. DOI/10.1146/annurev-economics-081919-050239
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 22 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Downloads
1,379
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13996
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 07 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
Downloads
1
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1,379
19.
Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 24, p. 171, 2010, Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2010-3
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 30 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 13 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Downloads
1,261
20.
Why Does Balanced News Produce Unbalanced Views?
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 11 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 18 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Department of Economics and Harvard Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Why Does Balanced News Produce Unbalanced Views?
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 11 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 18 May 2017
Downloads
1,246
Why Does Balanced News Produce Unbalanced Views?
NBER Working Paper No. w18975
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 20 Apr 2013
Downloads
40
Downloads
1,246
21.
Framing in Social Media: How the US Congress Uses Twitter Hashtags to Frame Political Issues
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 29 Aug 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan, Illinois Institute of Technology and Illinois Institute of Technology - Department of Humanities
Downloads
1,152
22.
How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy?
NYU Stern School of Business, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-05
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 20 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
New York University School of Law, Wake Forest University - Schools of Business and New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy?
NYU Stern School of Business, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-05
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 20 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2020
Downloads
1,137
How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy?
NBER Working Paper No. w26219
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 09 Sep 2019
Downloads
7
Downloads
1,137
23.
Blogs as an Alternative Public Sphere: The Role of Blogs, Mainstream Media, and TV in Russia's Media Ecology
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2014-8
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 25 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 04 May 2014
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Downloads
1,135
24.
Is the Chinese Anti-Corruption Campaign Authentic?
29th Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting 2018, Finance Down Under 2019 Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance, Paris December 2018 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 115
Posted: 20 May 2016
Last Revised: 09 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance, Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Downloads
1,069
25.
Does Media Fragmentation Produce Mass Polarization? Selective Exposure and a New Era of Minimal Effects
APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 25 Aug 2010
Working Paper Series
Temple University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Riverside - Department of Political Science
Downloads
1,054
26.
Informational Autocracy: Theory and Empirics of Modern Authoritarianism.
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 02 Mar 2015
Last Revised: 18 Jun 2018
Working Paper Series
Sciences Po and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science
There are 2 versions of this paper
Informational Autocracy: Theory and Empirics of Modern Authoritarianism.
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 02 Mar 2015
Last Revised: 18 Jun 2018
Downloads
1,037
How Modern Dictators Survive: Cooptation, Censorship, Propaganda, and Repression
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10454
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Mar 2015
Downloads
1
Downloads
1,037
27.
Public Diplomacy 2.0: An Exploratory Case Study of the US Digital Outreach Team
Khatib, L., Dutton, W.H., and Thelwall, M. 'Public Diplomacy 2.0: An Exploratory Case Study of the US Digital Outreach Team', The Middle East Journal, 2012
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 05 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 03 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University, University of Southern California and University of Wolverhampton
Downloads
963
28.
Why Do They Tweet? The Use of Twitter by U.S. Senate Candidates in 2010
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 15 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 10 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Downloads
928
29.
Automated Detection of Chinese Government Astroturfers Using Network and Social Metadata
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 17 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 17 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, College of Literature, Science & the Arts, Department of Political Science, Students
Downloads
897
30.
Impact of COVID-19 on the Media System. Communicative and Democratic Consequences of News Consumption during the Outbreak
Casero-Ripollés, Andreu (2020). “Impact of Covid-19 on the media system. Communicative and democratic consequences of news consumption during the outbreak”. El profesional de la información, v. 29, n. 2, e290223. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.mar.23
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 07 May 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Jaume I University
Downloads
875
31.
Governance of the Facebook Privacy Crisis
20 Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law & Policy (2020)
Number of pages: 107
Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Last Revised: 03 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
857
32.
You Have No Sovereignty Where We Gather – Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Cloud
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 08 Mar 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Downloads
829
33.
Fake News, Investor Attention, and Market Reaction
Information Systems Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 01 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 18 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, HKU Business School, Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
Downloads
828
34.
Information Asymmetry and Power in a Surveillance Society
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 23 Jan 2014
Last Revised: 04 Sep 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Leicester School of Management and Open University, UK
Downloads
779
35.
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism But Silences Collective Expression
APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 13 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 13 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
Harvard University, Stanford University and Harvard University
Downloads
765
36.
A Constitutional Right to Lie in Campaigns and Elections?
Montana Law Review, Vol.74, No.1, 2013, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-68
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 10 Jun 2019
Last Revised: 12 Jun 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Downloads
714
37.
Searching for Media Complementarity: Use of Social Network Sites and Other Online Media for Campaign Information Among Young Adults
Presented at the Annual Convention of the Western States Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 14 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
Washington State University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
681
38.
Republicans and Climate Change: An Audience Analysis of Predictors for Belief and Policy Preferences
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 21 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 23 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University - Center for Climate Change Communication, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - School of Communication and Information (SC&I) and Yale University
Downloads
664
39.
In Search of Soft Power: Does Foreign Public Opinion Matter for U.S. Foreign Policy?
World Politics, Vol. 64, Issue 3, pp. 555-585., 2012
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 23 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 04 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
School of Politics & International Relations - Australian National University and Dartmouth College - Department of Government
Downloads
649
40.
Do Concerns about Labour Market Competition Shape Attitudes Toward Immigration? New Evidence
APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper, MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2011-20
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 01 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Political Science, Harvard University and Tel Aviv University
Downloads
644
41.
Controlling the Chinese Media: An Uncertain Business
University of California, Reprinted from Asian Survey, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 414-30, 2008
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 02 Jul 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Iowa State University - Department of Political Science
Downloads
638
42.
Social Media and Politics: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in Designing a Study of Political Engagement
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 24 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Independent
Downloads
635
43.
Could Brexit Be Void?
29(3) King's Law Journal 331-343, King's College London Law School Research Paper No. 2018-29
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 05 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 21 Feb 2019
Accepted Paper Series
School of Law, King's College, London; Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge
Downloads
628
44.
The Consequences of Broader Media Choice: Evidence from the Expansion of Fox News
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 20 Jan 2020
Last Revised: 20 Jan 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University - Department of Government
Downloads
626
45.
The Impact of Political Ideology on Concern and Behavior During COVID-19
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 13 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
University of New Orleans, University of New Orleans, University of New Orleans, University of New Orleans and University of New Orleans
Downloads
620
46.
Enemy Construction and the Press
BYU Law Research Paper No. 17-23
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 10 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 29 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
Downloads
616
47.
A Tale of Two Twitterspheres: Political Microblogging During and After the 2016 Primary and Presidential Debates
Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-13
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 26 Jan 2017
Last Revised: 25 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Columbia University, Columbia Business School, Marketing, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
Downloads
608
48.
A Field Guide to 'Fake News' and Other Information Disorders
A Field Guide to "Fake News" and Other Information Disorders: A Collection of Recipes for Those Who Love to Cook with Digital Methods, Public Data Lab, Amsterdam (2018)
Number of pages: 216
Posted: 10 Jan 2018
Last Revised: 31 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
Ghent University, King's College London, Centre Internet et Société CNRS and Politecnico di Milano - DensityDesign Lab
Downloads
600
49.
Youth and Digital Citizenship+ (Plus): Understanding Skills for a Digital World
Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2020-2
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 14 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Downloads
580
50.
The Politics-Media-Politics Principle: Towards a More Comprehensive Approach to Political Communication
APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper, American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 19 Aug 2013
Working Paper Series
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah
Downloads
574
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