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dc.contributor.authorKing, Gary
dc.contributor.authorSchneer, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Ariel R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-13T21:35:22Z
dc.date.available2018-12-13T21:35:22Z
dc.date.issued2017-11
dc.identifier.issn0036-8075
dc.identifier.issn1095-9203
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119647
dc.description.abstractWe demonstrate that exposure to the news media causes Americans to take public stands on specific issues, join national policy conversations, and express themselves publicly—all key components of democratic politics—more often than they would otherwise. After recruiting 48 mostly small media outlets, we chose groups of these outlets to write and publish articles on subjects we approved, on dates we randomly assigned. We estimated the causal effect on proximal measures, such as website pageviews and Twitter discussion of the articles’ specific subjects, and distal ones, such as national Twitter conversation in broad policy areas. Our intervention increased discussion in each broad policy area by ~62.7% (relative to a day’s volume), accounting for 13,166 additional posts over the treatment week, with similar effects across population subgroups.en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aao1100en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceProf. White via Jen Greenleafen_US
dc.titleHow the news media activate public expression and influence national agendasen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationKing, Gary, Benjamin Schneer, and Ariel White. “How the News Media Activate Public Expression and Influence National Agendas.” Science 358, no. 6364 (November 9, 2017): 776–780.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.approverWhite, A.en_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorWhite, Ariel R.
dc.relation.journalScienceen_US
dc.eprint.versionAuthor's final manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsKing, Gary; Schneer, Benjamin; White, Arielen_US
dspace.embargo.termsNen_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9409-6765
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICYen_US


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