Investigating bias in traditional media through social media

Arjumand Younus, M. Atif Qureshi, Suneel Kumar Kingrani, Muhammad Saeed, Nasir Touheed, Colm O'Riordan, Pasi Gabriella

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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).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion
Pages643-644
Number of pages2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web, WWW'12 - Lyon, France
Duration: 16 Apr 201220 Apr 2012

Publication series

NameWWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Conference

Conference21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web, WWW'12
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLyon
Period16/04/1220/04/12

Keywords

  • Media bias
  • Named entities
  • Social media
  • Topic models

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