Age, gender, personality, ideological attitudes and individual differences in a person's news spectrum: how many and who might be prone to “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers” online?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03214
Abstract: Potential effects of demographics, personality, and ideological attitudes on the number of news sources consumed should be investigated. The number of news sources consumed, in turn, was seen as inverse proxy for the susceptibility to… read more here.
Keywords: news; bubbles echo; news sources; number ... See more keywords
The frame of the house: How elite news sources framed Taiwan’s housing policy
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DOI: 10.1177/0739532919873137
Abstract: This study content analyzed how elite news sources framed Taiwan’s housing policy and inequality that underlies its major social problems in the press. Results show that reports used pro-market rhetoric, not pro-social equality justification. Official… read more here.
Keywords: policy; framed taiwan; news sources; housing ... See more keywords
A potential mechanism for low tolerance feedback loops in social media flagging systems
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268270
Abstract: Many people use social media as a primary information source, but their questionable reliability has pushed platforms to contain misinformation via crowdsourced flagging systems. Such systems, however, assume that users are impartial arbiters of truth.… read more here.
Keywords: social media; low tolerance; news; news sources ... See more keywords