Internet, News, and Political Trust: The Difference Between Social Media and Online Media Outlets

Cerón, Andrea

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“…Jedan od osnovnih nalaza ovog istraživanja bio je da su oni sa nižim nivoom poverenja u tradicionalne medije skloniji da se okreću alternativnim medijima poput društvenih medija ili blogova kao izvoru vesti, kao i da su skloniji da se angažuju u različitim formama onlajn participacije poput komentarisanja ili deljenja vesti. I druga istraživanja pokazuju da je opadanje poverenja u tradicionalne medije povezano za potrebe političke propagande Dalibor Petrović CM : Communication and Media XIII(44) 5-34 © 2018 CDI sa potrebom da se nalaze alternativni izvori informisanja ili da se kreiraju sopstvene vesti (Ceron, 2015;Ardèvol-Abreu, Hooker & Zúñiga, 2018).…”

Section: Kriza Poverenja U Tradicionalne Medijeunclassified

Digital platforms as means of political propaganda: The case of the protest Against dictatorship fake Facebook page

Petrović¹

2018

CM: Commun Media

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Sažetak: Sve intenzivnija kriza poverenja u tradicionalne medije dovela je do toga da se ključna borba za kontrolu javne sfere danas odvija u sajberprostorima interneta. Ovi trendovi su posebno izraženi u takozvanim umreženim autokratijama, režimima koji su uspostavili čvrstu kontrolu nad mejnstrim medijima, ali koji su isto tako razvili delotvorne strategije i tehnike za borbu sa političkim oponentima na digitalnim platformama. U umreženim autokratijama na delu je poseban vid političke propagande koja se može okarakterisati kao kompjuterizovana propaganda koja se odvija uz pomoć digitalnih platformi, političkih botova i Interneta stvari. Osnovna uloga kompjuterizovane propagande nije, toliko, prenošenje pozitivne slike onoga u čije ime se ona sprovodi već, pre svega, zagađivanje i polarizacija javnih prostora interneta sa ciljem odvraćanja što većeg broja ljudi od društveno-političkog onlajn aktivizma. Srbija je jedna od zemalja koja ima veoma razvijenu kompjuterizovanu propagandu, bilo da govorimo o broju ljudi koji u ime vladajućih struktura i za njihov račun propagandno deluje na internetu bilo da govorimo o obimu njihovih akcija. Jedan od primera njihovog dejstva činilo je pokretanje lažne Fejsbuk stranice protesta Protiv diktature, sa ciljem izazivanja konfuzije kod pristalica ovog protesta. Naša empirijska studija pokazuje da su pokretači ove stranice bili vrlo uspešni u sprovođenju svoje kampanje, doprinoseći tome da jedan od najvećih antivladinih protesta u postmiloševićevskoj eri relativno brzo i, po vlast, bezbolno bude okončan.Ključne reči: digitalne platforme, propaganda, trolovi, botovi, Fejsbuk, protest Protiv diktature 1 Kontakt sa autorom: d.petrovic@sf.bg.ac.rs.

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Digital platforms as means of political propaganda: The case of the protest Against dictatorship fake Facebook page

Petrović¹

2018

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“…With this method, it is possible to estimate ideology for more actors than any existing alternative, at any point in time, and across many polities. Ceron (2015) combines data from a Eurobarometer survey held in November 2012 across 27 European countries with a supervised sentiment analysis of online political information, based on data scraped from the Internet. This method allows the author to track differences between mediated and unmediated sources of information in the political debate (news media vs. social media), highlight the potential shortcoming of e-democracy, and analyze the relationship between Internet usage and political trust.…”

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Data Science for Institutional and Organizational Economics

Prüfer

2018

SSRN Journal

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To which extent can data science methods -such as machine learning, text analysis, or sentiment analysis -push the research frontier in the social sciences? This essay briefly describes the most prominent data science techniques that lend themselves to analyses of institutional and organizational governance structures. We elaborate on several examples applying data science to analyze legal, political, and social institutions and sketch how specific data science techniques can be used to study important research questions that could not (to the same extent) be studied without these techniques. We conclude by comparing the main strengths and limitations of computational social science with traditional empirical research methods and its relation to theory.

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“…Such indexes, mainly measured through Twitter data, are related to a variety of topics, like health (e.g., Lampos & Cristianini, 2012;Signorini, Segre, & Polgreen, 2011), racism and intolerance (Burnap & Williams, 2015;Stephens, 2013), economic expectations, 1 subjective well-being, and happiness (Curini, Iacus, & Canova, 2014), as well as political trust (Ceron, 2015). For instance, Signorini et al (2011) used the content embedded in the Twitter stream to track public sentiment on H1N1 virus and swine flu, building a measure of "public concern" about health-related events.…”

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The “Social Side” of Public Policy: Monitoring Online Public Opinion and Its Mobilization During the Policy Cycle

Cerón¹,

Negri²

2016

Policy &Amp; Internet

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This article addresses the potential role played by social media analysis in promoting interaction between politicians, bureaucrats, and citizens. We show that in a “Big Data” world, the comments posted online by social media users can profitably be used to extract meaningful information, which can support the action of policymakers along the policy cycle. We analyze Twitter data through the technique of Supervised Aggregated Sentiment Analysis. We develop two case studies related to the “jobs act” labor market reform and the “#labuonascuola” school reform, both formulated and implemented by the Italian Renzi cabinet in 2014–15. Our results demonstrate that social media data can help policymakers to rate the available policy alternatives according to citizens' preferences during the formulation phase of a public policy; can help them to monitor citizens' opinions during the implementation phase; and capture stakeholders' mobilization and de‐mobilization processes. We argue that, although social media analysis cannot replace other research methods, it provides a fast and cheap stream of information that can supplement traditional analyses, enhancing responsiveness and institutional learning.

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Internet, News, and Political Trust: The Difference Between Social Media and Online Media Outlets

Cited by 176 publications

References 62 publications

Digital platforms as means of political propaganda: The case of the protest Against dictatorship fake Facebook page

Digital platforms as means of political propaganda: The case of the protest Against dictatorship fake Facebook page

Data Science for Institutional and Organizational Economics

The “Social Side” of Public Policy: Monitoring Online Public Opinion and Its Mobilization During the Policy Cycle

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