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Pogorelskiy, Kirill and Shum, Matthew (2019) News we like to share : how news sharing on social networks influences voting outcomes. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1199). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
More voters than ever get political news from their friends on social media platforms. Is this bad for democracy? Using context-neutral laboratory experiments, we find that biased (mis)information shared on social networks affects the quality of collective decisions relatively more than does segregation by political preferences on social media. Two features of subject behavior underlie this finding: 1) they share news signals selectively, revealing signals favorable to their candidates more often than unfavorable signals; 2) they naıvely take signals at face value and account for neither the selection in the shared signals nor the differential informativeness of news signals across different sources
| Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JC Political theory P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social media, Social media -- Political aspects, Fake news , Social networks, Voting , Mass media -- Objectivity , Journalism -- Objectivity | ||||||
| Series Name: | Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0083-7350 | ||||||
| Official Date: | June 2019 | ||||||
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| Number: | 1199 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 47 | ||||||
| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 May 2019 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 May 2019 | ||||||
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