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Sean Aday - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Chasing the Bad News: An Analysis of 2005 Iraq and Afghanistan War Coverage on NBC and Fox News Channel
    Journal of Communication, 2010
    Co-Authors: Sean Aday
    Abstract:

    This study analyzes all stories aired on NBC Nightly News and Fox News Channel's Special Report With Brit Hume during 2005 about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and compares that coverage with real-world indicators to address an important question: Did the News media over-report bad News from these conflicts, as claimed by the Bush administration and as one might expect given research into the press' negativity bias? This study finds that while both Channels focused a fair amount on negative storylines, overall the News actually underplayed bad News from both countries. Fox News was much more sympathetic to the administration than NBC, suggesting that scholars should consider Fox as alternative, rather than mainstream, media.

  • embedding the truth a cross cultural analysis of objectivity and television coverage of the iraq war
    Harvard International Journal of Press-politics, 2005
    Co-Authors: Sean Aday, Steven Livingston, Maeve Hebert
    Abstract:

    This article reports on a cross-cultural analysis of television coverage of the 2003 Iraq War that seeks to assess and understand the dimensions of objectivity in the News during wartime. A total of 1,820 stories on five American networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel [FNC]) and on the Arab satellite Channel Al Jazeera were included in the study. The study assessed bias on two levels:tone of individual stories and the macro-level portrait of the war offered by each network. Results showed that at the story level, the overwhelming number of stories broadcast by Al Jazeera and the American networks other than FNC were balanced. Yet the data also revealed a strong bias in support of the American-led war effort at FNC and important differences in how the various networks covered the war. Also, broadcasters showed a war devoid of blood, dissent, and diplomacy, focusing instead on a sanitized version of combat. Overall, the study found evidence that the News norm of objectivity is defined in large part ...

Michael Poyker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The safest time to fly: pandemic response in the era of Fox News
    Journal of Population Economics, 2021
    Co-Authors: Maxim Ananyev, Michael Poyker, Yuan Tian
    Abstract:

    We document a causal effect of the conservative Fox News Channel in the USA on physical distancing during COVID-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all US states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to 15–17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility using Facebook location data. Using the historical position of Fox News Channel in the cable lineup as the source of exogenous variation, we show that increased exposure to Fox News led to a smaller reduction in distance traveled and a smaller increase in the probability of staying home after the national emergency declaration in the USA. Our results show that slanted media can have a harmful effect on containment efforts during a pandemic by affecting people’s behavior.

  • Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel
    Social Science Research Network, 2019
    Co-Authors: Elliott Ash, Michael Poyker
    Abstract:

    Exposure to conservative News causes judges to impose harsher criminal sentences. Our evidence comes from an instrumental variables analysis, where randomness in television Channel positioning across localities induces exogenous variation in exposure to Fox News Channel. These treatment data on News viewership are taken to outcomes data on almost 7 million criminal sentencing decisions in the United States for the years 2005–2017. Higher Fox News viewership increases incarceration length, and the effect is stronger for black defendants and for drug-related crimes. The effect is observed for elected, and not appointed, judges, consistent with voter attitudes as a potential mechanism. The effect becomes weaker as judges get closer to election, suggesting a diminishing marginal effect for judges who are already politically engaged.

Yuan Tian - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The safest time to fly: pandemic response in the era of Fox News
    Journal of Population Economics, 2021
    Co-Authors: Maxim Ananyev, Michael Poyker, Yuan Tian
    Abstract:

    We document a causal effect of the conservative Fox News Channel in the USA on physical distancing during COVID-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all US states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to 15–17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility using Facebook location data. Using the historical position of Fox News Channel in the cable lineup as the source of exogenous variation, we show that increased exposure to Fox News led to a smaller reduction in distance traveled and a smaller increase in the probability of staying home after the national emergency declaration in the USA. Our results show that slanted media can have a harmful effect on containment efforts during a pandemic by affecting people’s behavior.

Levi Obijiofor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Students’ perceptions and use of the Internet as a News Channel
    2013
    Co-Authors: Levi Obijiofor, Folker Hanusch
    Abstract:

    New technologies, in particular the Internet, have transformed journalistic practices in many ways around the world. While a number of studies have investigated how established journalists are dealing with and using new technologies in a number of countries, very little attention has been paid to how student journalists view and use the Internet as a source of News. This study examined the ways in which second and third-year journalism and arts students at the University of Queensland (Australia) get their News, how they use the Internet as a News Channel, as well as their perceptions and use of other new technologies. The authors draw on the theoretical frameworks of uses and gratifications, as well as the media richness theory to explore the primary reasons why students use and perceive the Internet as a News Channel.

  • STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND USE OF THE INTERNET AS A News Channel Levi OBIJIOFOR, Ph.D.
    2013
    Co-Authors: Folker Hanusch, Levi Obijiofor
    Abstract:

    New technologies, in particular the Internet, have transformed journalistic practices in many ways around the world. While a number of studies have investigated how established journalists are dealing with and using new technologies in a number of countries, very little attention has been paid to how student journalists view and use the Internet as a source of News. This study examined the ways in which second and third-year journalism and arts students at the University of Queensland (Australia) get their News, how they use the Internet as a News Channel, as well as their perceptions and use of other new technologies. The authors draw on the theoretical frameworks of uses and gratifications, as well as the media richness theory to explore the primary reasons why students use and perceive the Internet as a News Channel. KEYWORDS: Internet, New technologies, News, News source, University students, Australia

Folker Hanusch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Students’ perceptions and use of the Internet as a News Channel
    2013
    Co-Authors: Levi Obijiofor, Folker Hanusch
    Abstract:

    New technologies, in particular the Internet, have transformed journalistic practices in many ways around the world. While a number of studies have investigated how established journalists are dealing with and using new technologies in a number of countries, very little attention has been paid to how student journalists view and use the Internet as a source of News. This study examined the ways in which second and third-year journalism and arts students at the University of Queensland (Australia) get their News, how they use the Internet as a News Channel, as well as their perceptions and use of other new technologies. The authors draw on the theoretical frameworks of uses and gratifications, as well as the media richness theory to explore the primary reasons why students use and perceive the Internet as a News Channel.

  • STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND USE OF THE INTERNET AS A News Channel Levi OBIJIOFOR, Ph.D.
    2013
    Co-Authors: Folker Hanusch, Levi Obijiofor
    Abstract:

    New technologies, in particular the Internet, have transformed journalistic practices in many ways around the world. While a number of studies have investigated how established journalists are dealing with and using new technologies in a number of countries, very little attention has been paid to how student journalists view and use the Internet as a source of News. This study examined the ways in which second and third-year journalism and arts students at the University of Queensland (Australia) get their News, how they use the Internet as a News Channel, as well as their perceptions and use of other new technologies. The authors draw on the theoretical frameworks of uses and gratifications, as well as the media richness theory to explore the primary reasons why students use and perceive the Internet as a News Channel. KEYWORDS: Internet, New technologies, News, News source, University students, Australia