Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2012

Abstract

Traditional media outlets are known to report political news in a biased way, potentially affecting the political beliefs of the audience and even altering their voting behaviors. Therefore, tracking bias in everyday news and building a platform where people can receive balanced news information is important. We propose a model that maps the news media sources along a dimensional dichotomous political spectrum using the co-subscriptions relationships inferred by Twitter links. By analyzing 7 million follow links, we show that the political dichotomy naturally arises on Twitter when we only consider direct media subscription. Furthermore, we demonstrate a real-time Twitter-based application that visualizes an ideological map of various media sources.

Keywords

Media outlets, News information, News media, Political news, social media, Twitter

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing | Social Influence and Political Communication | Social Media

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

AAAI Workshop Technical Report WS-12-01: The Potential of Social Media Tools and Data for Journalists in the News Media Industry: Dublin, Ireland

Volume

6

First Page

2

Last Page

5

ISBN

9781577355649

Publisher

AAAI Press

City or Country

Palo Alto, CA

Additional URL

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14343

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