As individuals consume an increasing amount of news on social media it is important to understand the consumption habits of individuals on this platform. This study examines the importance of ideological similarity betwen a news source and an individual and the importance of the reliability of a news source in users' consumption decisions in a social media environment. The ndings suggest that, ...

With the advent of specialized television channels offering 24-hour coverage, Internet and smart phones, the possibility to be constantly in contact with the media has increased dramatically in the last decades. Despite this higher access to knowledge, the impact media exposure has on healthy individuals remains poorly studied. Given that most information conveyed in the media is negative and t...

The widespread use of social media is regarded by many as the emergence of a new highway for information and news sharing promising a new information-driven “social revolution”. In this paper, we analyze how this idea transfers to the news reporting domain. To analyze the role of social media in news reporting, we ask whether citizen journalists tend to create news or peddle (re-report) existin...

The news industry has gone through seismic shifts in the past decade with digital content and social media completely redefining how people consume news. Readers check for accurate fresh news from multiple sources throughout the day using dedicated apps or social media on their smartphones and tablets. At the same time, news publishers rely more and more on social networks and citizen journalis...

Social media platforms have become an important source of information in course of a breaking news event, such as natural calamity, political uproar, etc. News organisations and journalists are increasingly realising the value of information being propagated via social media. However, the sheer volume of the data produced on social media is overwhelming and manual inspection of this streaming d...

Media news serves as information intermediary that contributes to the cross industry return predictability. First, cross industry news contains valuable information about firm fundamentals that is not priced by the market. Second, consistent with high information costs hypothesis, cross industry news has long term effects on future returns with an annulized risk adjusted return 10.85% after 10 ...

To produce an adequate translation, language students are required to learn varieties of language features including syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Considering the curriculum language learners are face with, one can claim that almost all language students in Iran are taught these features in their academic settings including linguistic courses. Yet, there are some aspects of language which a...