Abreu, Luis and Jeon, Doh-Shin (2020) Homophily in Social Media and News Polarization. TSE Working Paper, n. 20-1081, Toulouse

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Abstract

We consider an ad-financed media firm that chooses the ideological location of its news and targets consumers who can share the news with their followers on online social media. After studying how a targeted consumer's incentive to share the news is shaped by the network structure of her followers, we study the firm's strategy to maximize the breadth of news sharing and find that when the mean (respectively, the variance) of followers' ideological locations is a convex (respectively, concave) function of a direct consumer's location, the firm is likely to produce polarized news.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: March 2020
Place of Publication: Toulouse
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 21 Apr 2020 14:38
Last Modified: 03 Jun 2021 13:09
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:124150
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/34245
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