It is often the case that traditional media provide coverage of a news event on the basis of journalists' viewpoints - a problem termed in the literature as media bias. On the other hand social media have given birth to an alternative paradigm of journalism known as "citizen journalism". We take advantage of citizen journalism to detect the bias in traditional media and propose a simple model for empirical measurement of media bias. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).

Younus, A., Qureshi, M., Singrani, S., Saeed, M., Touheed, N., O'Riordan, C., et al. (2012). Investigating bias in traditional media through social media. In WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion (pp.643-644). ACM [10.1145/2187980.2188168].

Investigating bias in traditional media through social media

YOUNUS, ARJUMAND;QURESHI, MUHAMMAD ATIF;PASI, GABRIELLA
2012

Abstract

It is often the case that traditional media provide coverage of a news event on the basis of journalists' viewpoints - a problem termed in the literature as media bias. On the other hand social media have given birth to an alternative paradigm of journalism known as "citizen journalism". We take advantage of citizen journalism to detect the bias in traditional media and propose a simple model for empirical measurement of media bias. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).
poster
Media bias; Named entities; Social media; Topic models;
Information Extraction, Social Media
English
21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web, WWW'12
2012
WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion
9781450312301
2012
643
644
none
Younus, A., Qureshi, M., Singrani, S., Saeed, M., Touheed, N., O'Riordan, C., et al. (2012). Investigating bias in traditional media through social media. In WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion (pp.643-644). ACM [10.1145/2187980.2188168].
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