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Replication Data for: News Sharing on Social Media: Mapping the Ideology of News Media, Politicians, and the Mass Public |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/1QMLOV |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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2024-09-10 |
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Eady, Gregory, 2024, "Replication Data for: News Sharing on Social Media: Mapping the Ideology of News Media, Politicians, and the Mass Public", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1QMLOV, Harvard Dataverse, V2 |
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Replication Data for: News Sharing on Social Media: Mapping the Ideology of News Media, Politicians, and the Mass Public |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/1QMLOV |
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Authoring Entity: |
Eady, Gregory (University of Copenhagen) |
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<i>Political Analysis</i> |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Eady, Gregory |
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Eady, Gregory |
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2024-09-09 |
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1QMLOV |
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Social Sciences |
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This article examines the information sharing behavior of US politicians and the mass public by mapping the ideological sharing space of political news on social media. As data, we use the near-universal currency of online information exchange: web links. We introduce a methodological approach and software to unify the measurement of ideology across social media platforms by using sharing data to jointly estimate the ideology of news media organizations, politicians, and the mass public. Empirically, we show that (1) politicians who share ideologically polarized content share, by far, the most political news and commentary, and (2) that the less competitive elections are, the more likely politicians are to share polarized information. These results demonstrate that news and commentary shared by politicians come from a highly unrepresentative set of ideologically extreme legislators, and that decreases in election pressures (e.g. by gerrymandering) may encourage polarized sharing behavior. |
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Forthcoming, Political Analysis |
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