SSRN Electronic Journal,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
We
analyze
whether
the
social
media
popularity
of
Twitter
star
scientists,
who
were
identified
by
Science
in
a
2014
report,
pays
off
terms
an
increased
number
citations.
To
establish
causal
relationship,
we
use
COVID-19
global
pandemic
as
quasi-natural
experiment
exogenously
increasing
public
attention
and
demand
for
expertise.
Using
science
stars'
their
coauthors'
publications
on
COVID
related
topics
prior
to
break
out
pandemic,
run
difference-in-differences
analysis
annual
incoming
citations
two
groups.
find
that
status
added
about
1.07
extra
following
breakout
per
year
article,
corresponding
70%
already
existing
citation
gap
between
stars
coauthors.
Moreover,
also
document
publication
list
se
caused
increase
citations,
i.e.
supposed
celebrity
benefited
stars,
which
meant
1.06
more
article
compared
Treatment
based
scientists'
Kardashian
indexes
yields
no
robust
effects,
implying
unjustified
does
not
pay
SSRN Electronic Journal,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
We
study
the
political
effects
of
diffusion
mobile
Internet
between
2007
and
2017
using
administrative
data
on
electoral
outcomes
signal
across
82,094
municipalities
twenty
European
countries,
which
we
complement
with
individual
survey
voters'
values
positions.
In
line
literature
in
social
psychology
claiming
that
media
promote
tribalism
make
individuals
particularly
permeable
to
messages
intolerance
prime
insiders
at
expense
outsiders,
show
this
technology
led
an
increase
support
for
communitarian
parties
campaigning
nationalism
dislike
strangers
minorities.
Our
estimates
suggest
one
third
half
remarkable
success
parties,
roughly
doubled
their
over
period,
can
be
ascribed
enhanced
access
technology.
SSRN Electronic Journal,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
We
conducted
a
field
experiment
on
Twitter
to
examine
the
impact
of
social
media
promotion
job
market
outcomes
in
economics.
Half
519
papers
tweeted
from
our
research
account
were
randomly
assigned
be
quote-tweeted
by
prominent
economists.
Papers
received
442%
more
views
and
303%
likes.
Moreover,
candidates
treatment
group
one
additional
flyout,
with
women
receiving
0.9
offers.
These
findings
suggest
that
can
improve
visibility
success
candidates,
especially
for
underrepresented
groups
economics
such
as
women.
SSRN Electronic Journal,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
We
study
the
political
effects
of
diffusion
mobile
Internet
between
2007
and
2017,
using
data
on
electoral
outcomes
signal
across
84,564
municipalities
22
European
countries.
find
that
access
to
increased
voters'
support
for
right-wing
populist
parties
running
extreme
socially
conservative
platforms,
primarily
in
areas
with
greater
economic
deprivation.
Using
survey
data,
we
also
show
communitarian
attitudes,
such
as
nationalism
dislike
strangers
minorities.
conclude
benefitted
because,
line
findings
social
psychology,
it
fostered
offline
tribalism.
SSRN Electronic Journal,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
We
study
how
biased
media
may
spread
xenophobia.
analyze
cable
TV
News
channel
transcripts
and
document
that
Fox
News,
one
of
the
most
popular
channels,
associated
COVID-19
Pandemic
with
China
more
than
competitor
channel,
MSNBC.
Next,
utilizing
our
own
survey,
we
estimate
heterogeneous
treatment
effects
watching
on
individual
racial
animus
perceptions
social
tolerance
anti-Chinese
find
is
higher
perception
xenophobia
would
be
tolerated
by
general
public
at
every
quantile.
Interestingly,
do
not
such
an
effect
for
other
competitive
channels.
use
a
equilibrium
model
in
Deng
Hwang
(2023)
to
predict
change
while
varying
proportion
population
News.
In
equilibrium,
people
perceive
reputational
harm
as
much
smaller
when
watch
so
average
level
economy
becomes
responsive
compared
partial
which
assumes
same
consequence
from
That
is,
bias
crucially
depends
popularity
due
changing
norms
Oxford Open Economics,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Dec. 16, 2024
Abstract
This
article
surveys
the
economic
literature
on
role
of
mass
media
and
social
for
dissemination
news
about
GDP,
inflation,
unemployment,
economy
at
large.
Focusing
studies
that
use
content
data,
two
key
insights
emerge.
First,
identical
macroeconomic
facts
may
receive
different
levels
attention
can
be
framed
in
ways,
depending
political
psychological
factors.
Second,
information
spread
by
affect
outcomes
independent
ground.
These
other
findings
have
helped
to
refine
various
theories
behavioral
economics,
finance,
macroeconomics,
fields.
The
also
identifies
untapped
research
potential
formulates
specific
recommendations
future
studies,
especially
terms
underutilized
sources
application
computational
methods
(e.g.
large
language
models,
image
classification,
emotion
recognition),
econometric
designs
supporting
causal
inference.
SSRN Electronic Journal,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
We
study
how
individuals
comment
on
political
news
posted
Reddit's
main
forum
during
the
2016
US
Presidential
Election.
show
that
partisan
users
behave
very
differently
from
independents
if
is
bad
for
a
candidate.
They
avoid
commenting
unfavorable
polls
and
scandals
their
favorite
candidate,
but
seek
such
its
opponent.
When
they
do
try
to
rationalize
it,
display
more
negative
sentiment,
are
likely
cite
of
This
behavior
consistent
with
motivated
reasoning,
predictions
model
costly
attention,
where
cost
attention
depends
whether
pleasant
or
unpleasant.
SSRN Electronic Journal,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2021
This
paper
explores
the
impact
of
social
media
expansion
in
its
later
stages
on
collective
action,
focusing
Black
Lives
Matter
(BLM)
protests
2020.
Using
data
from
over
100
million
tweets
and
leveraging
plausibly
exogenous
variation
super
spreading
events,
we
show
that
pandemic
exposure
increased
adoption
predominantly
white,
rural,
Republican-leaning
counties.
"Late
adopters"
played
a
crucial
role
online
offline
BLM
to
new
areas,
mobilizing
more
effectively
than
existing
users.
Our
evidence
suggests
shift
preferences
among
late
adopters,
beyond
merely
reducing
coordination
costs.
