Investigating bias in traditional media through social media

Authors:
Arjumand Younus;Muhammad Atif Qureshi;Suneel Kumar Kingrani;Muhammad Saeed;Nasir Touheed;Colm O'Riordan;Pasi Gabriella
Affiliations:
Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan;Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan;Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan;Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan;Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan;National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland;University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Year:
2012

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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.