Journal of Public Economics, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 206, С. 104578 - 104578
Опубликована: Янв. 15, 2022
Язык: Английский
Annual Review of Economics, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 12(1), С. 415 - 438
Опубликована: Май 26, 2020
How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical evidence from recent economy literature, focusing primarily on work that considers traits distinguish traditional off-line media, such as low barriers to entry reliance user-generated content. discuss main results about effects of in general, particular, voting, street protests, attitudes toward government, polarization, xenophobia, politicians’ behavior. also role dissemination fake news, we summarize strategies employed by autocratic regimes censor use for surveillance propaganda. conclude highlighting open questions how shape politics democracies autocracies.
Язык: Английский
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Econometrica, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 88(4), С. 1479 - 1514
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2020
Do new communication technologies, such as social media, alleviate the collective action problem? This paper provides evidence that penetration of VK, dominant Russian online network, led to more protest activity during a wave protests in Russia 2011. As source exogenous variation network penetration, we use information on city origin students who studied with founder controlling for at same university several years earlier or later. We find 10% increase VK increased probability by 4.6% and number protesters 19%. Additional results suggest media induced reducing costs coordination rather than spreading critical government. observe pro‐governmental support, no polarization. also cities higher fractionalization users between Facebook experienced fewer protests, effect exhibits threshold behavior.
Язык: Английский
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Science, Год журнала: 2019, Номер 366(6471)
Опубликована: Дек. 13, 2019
The rapid spread of mobile phones creates potential for sustainably raising agricultural productivity the 2 billion people living in smallholder farming households. Meta-analyses suggest that providing information via digital technologies increased yields by 4% and odds adopting recommended inputs 22%. Benefits likely exceed cost transmission an order magnitude. GPS-enabled smartphones could increase these benefits enabling customized information, thus incentivizing farmers to contribute system. Well-known distortions markets limit ability such systems reach socially efficient scale through purely commercial means. There is a clear role public support extension, but messages designed ministries are often difficult understand use. Realizing communication requires feedback mechanisms enable rigorous testing continuous improvement.
Язык: Английский
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American Journal of Political Science, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 65(2), С. 309 - 325
Опубликована: Апрель 7, 2020
Abstract This article studies the consequences of digital surveillance in dictatorships. I first develop an informational theory repression and co‐optation. argue that resolves dictators' information problem not knowing individual citizens' true anti‐regime sentiments. By identifying radical opponents, enables dictators to substitute targeted for nonexclusive co‐optation forestall coordinated uprisings. My implies as technologies advance, we should observe a rise decline universal redistribution. Using difference‐in‐differences design exploits temporal variation systems among Chinese counties, find increases local governments' public security expenditure arrests political activists but decreases goods provision. evidence suggest improvements make citizens worse off
Язык: Английский
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American Economic Review, Год журнала: 2019, Номер 109(6), С. 2294 - 2332
Опубликована: Май 31, 2019
Media censorship is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. We conduct field experiment in China to measure the effects providing citizens with access an uncensored internet. track subjects’ media consumption, beliefs regarding media, economic beliefs, political attitudes, and behaviors over 18 months. find four main results: (i) free alone does not induce subjects acquire politically sensitive information; (ii) temporary encouragement leads persistent increase acquisition, indicating that demand permanently low; (iii) acquisition brings broad, substantial, changes knowledge, intended behaviors; (iv) social transmission information statistically significant but small magnitude. calibrate simple model show combination low for moderate means China’s apparatus may remain robust large number receiving (JEL C93, D72, D83, L82, L86, L88, P36)
Язык: Английский
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New Media & Society, Год журнала: 2017, Номер 20(8), С. 2691 - 2711
Опубликована: Сен. 6, 2017
This article examines how taxi drivers adapt to, manipulate and fight against the rise of ride-hailing platforms like Didi Chuxing in China (which purchased Uber China). Chinese entered on-demand labour before private car drivers. Based on a nationwide data survey, argues that technological power took shape by reinforcing inequalities facing informally employed prior to emergence apps. Drivers, far from being passive app users, have counteracted changes work environment resulted platformisation new evolving ways, strikes algorithmic activism. study suggests online are contested spaces where digital politics penetrate beyond purported technology. The enriches researches deconstructing distinction between gig pointing unfolding grounds for
Язык: Английский
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Sociological Methodology, Год журнала: 2019, Номер 49(1), С. 1 - 57
Опубликована: Июль 19, 2019
Protest event analysis is an important method for the study of collective action and social movements typically draws on traditional media reports as data source. We introduce from (CASM)—a system that uses convolutional neural networks image recurrent with long short-term memory text in a two-stage classifier to identify posts about offline action. implement CASM Chinese more than 100,000 events 2010 2017 (CASM-China). evaluate performance through cross-validation, out-of-sample validation, comparisons other protest sets. assess effect online censorship find it does not substantially limit our identification events. Compared sets, CASM-China identifies relatively rural, land-related protests few related ethnic religious conflict.
Язык: Английский
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Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 35(9), С. 109 - 135
Опубликована: Июнь 21, 2022
Purpose This paper aims to identify ethical challenges of using artificial intelligence (AI)-based accounting systems for decision-making and discusses its findings based on Rest's four-component model antecedents decision-making. study derives implications auditing scholars practitioners. Design/methodology/approach research is rooted in the hermeneutics tradition interpretative research, which reader texts engage a form dialogue. To substantiate this dialogue, authors conduct theoretically informed, narrative (semi-systematic) literature review spanning years 2015–2020. review's driven by depicted contexts accounting/auditing practices found selected articles are used as sample instead or methods. Findings In thematic coding papers five major AI-based accounting: objectivity, privacy, transparency, accountability trustworthiness. Using component stable framework our structure, critically discuss their relevance future human–machine collaboration within varying agency between humans AI. Originality/value contributes subjectivising well mediating practice socio-material context. It does so providing solid base arguments that AI alone, despite enabling role accounting, cannot make decisions because it lacks necessary preconditions terms antecedents. What more, bound pre-set goals subjected human made conditions autonomous learning adaptive practices, true agency. As consequence, needs be shared The suggest related governance internal external processes need adapted skills awareness ensure an
Язык: Английский
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American Economic Review Insights, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 3(2), С. 233 - 250
Опубликована: Май 28, 2021
We study the causes of sustained participation in political movements. To identify persistent effect protest participation, we randomly indirectly incentivize Hong Kong university students into an antiauthoritarian protest. role social networks, randomize this treatment’s intensity across major-cohort cells. find that incentives to attend one within a movement increase subsequent attendance but only when sufficient fraction individual’s network is also incentivized initial One-time mobilization shocks have dynamic consequences, with at level important for engagement. (JEL D72, D74, I23, Z13)
Язык: Английский
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Journal of Accounting and Economics, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 74(2-3), С. 101539 - 101539
Опубликована: Авг. 18, 2022
The past 25 years have seen an exponential growth in the number of China studies leading accounting journals. rise China-related research mirrors country's increased importance on global stage and a growing appreciation economic Chinese institutions. We organize our review literature around three central themes: 1) political regulatory institutions, 2) China's relationships with foreign investors, 3) availability novel data shocks. former two themes address questions that are more China-centric, while third exploits setting to examine universal. highlight contributions made broader literature, limitations current we offer suggestions for future directions.
Язык: Английский
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