Bias in Cable News: Persuasion and Polarization

By Gregory J Martin, Ali Yurukoglu. 2017

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Affective Polarization and Ideological Sorting: A Reciprocal, Albeit Weak, Relationship (2018, background): “…polarizing content, although the estimated size of these effects range from small or nonexistent when it comes to the online environment (Boxell, Gentzkow, and Shapiro 2017; Lelkes, Sood, and Iyengar 2017) to quite large when it comes to the roll-out of cable news (Martin and Yurukoglu 2017).”
Belief Disagreement and Portfolio Choice (2018, unknown): “See the related work of Gentzkow and Shapiro (2006), Mullainathan and Shleifer (2005), and Martin and Yurukoglu (2017).”
Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization (2020, background): “…Lelkes et al., 2017; Sunstein, 2017; Settle, 2018) have linked polarization in the United States to the rise of digital media, and others (e.g., Duca & Saving, 2017; Martin & Yurukoglu, 2017) have linked the growth in polarization to the rise of partisan cable news networks in the United States.”
The Welfare Effects of Social Media (2019, background): “6 The most closely related is the important paper by Mosquera et al. (2018), which was made public the month before ours.”
Political Advertising and Election Results (2018, background): “…and Shapiro (2010) on measuring media bias, Durante and Knight (2012) on partisan control of the media, Strömberg (2004) on radio’s impact on public spending, Oberholzer-Gee and Waldfogel (2009) on media and Hispanic-voter turnout, and Martin and Yurukoglu (2017) on media bias and polarization.”
Optimal Dynamic Allocation of Attention (2018, methodology): “Our model shares a common theme with the rational inattention model (henceforth, RI) introduced by Sims (2003) and further developed by Matejka and McKay (2015) and Steiner, Stewart, and Matějka (2017).”
The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2020, unknown): “Our findings might also reflect, in part, an indirect effect moderated by political polarization, with Republicans less likely to comply with SD (Allcott et al., 2020; Barrios and Hochberg, 2020; Gauchat, 2012; Martin and Yurukoglu, 2017).”