media conglomeratesWe construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet's language is more similar to a congressional Republican or Democrat. We apply the mdoi:10.2139/ssrn.947640Gentzkow, MatthewShapiro, Jesse M.John Wiley & Sons, LtdSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
This chapter examines a number of cases where bias is said to be present and tries to generalize from them to an accurate account of the concept of bias. The root idea is that bias is a slant, an angle, a leaning, or a limited perspective. This idea seems to appear in three types ...
What is“anarchism without adjectives”? Who are the major anarchist thinkers? I. What is Anarchism? Modern civilisation faces three potentially catastrophic crises: Social breakdown- rising rates of poverty, homelessness, crime, violence, alienation, drug and alcohol abuse, social isolation, ignorance...
Media bias Sentiment analysis Hate speech detection Transfer learning 1. Introduction New information and communication technologies have reshaped the entire media environment since the Internet became available to the broader public [1]. The use of social media platforms as a news source is increasing...
The idea of the public sphere has long been central to communication research in political participation but has increasingly come under scrutiny in recent times. The general legitimacy crisis of Western democracies also concerns its established media institutions, and the proliferation of digital communic...
in the slant “I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.” —Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard Georgia O’Keeffe, From...
What is true for physical health is even more powerfully true for our psychological health. Many social and environmental factors are either direct causes of mental health problems or substantially increase our risk of developing them. These include: poverty in childhood; social inequality; migration...
Privacy activist and technology expert Bill Mew said that apps which rely on "some level of automation" and algorithms have the "potential to be unbiased" if they are trained correctly. If not, "there is always the risk of some form of inherent bias." ...
Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. Bias A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. Bias A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the ...
Bias is a personal and often unreasoned judgment, while a stereotype is a widely held, oversimplified belief about a particular group.