Calendrier du 03 mars 2020
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 03/03/2020 de 17:00 à 18:00
STERN Lennart (PSE)
The optimal taxation of air travel under monopolistic dynamic pricing
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 03/03/2020 de 14:30 à 16:30
PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21
EGGER Peter (ETH Zurich)
Decomposing the Economic Effects of Transport Infrastructure
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 03/03/2020 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ZHURAVSKAYA Ekaterina (PSE)
Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: How Social Media affects Traditional-Media Reporting?
écrit avec Sophie Hatte, Etienne Madinier
Do social media affect traditional media reporting? We estimate whether and how the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by US TV channels is affected by the flow of tweets released from Israel and Palestine. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in internet access in Israel and Palestine and electrostatic discharges during thunderstorms. We find systematic evidence that social media does change the reporting by traditional media. Twitter activity increases both the likelihood and the length of coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On average, the Palestinian side of the story is less likely to be reported. We provide some evidence that Twitter helps portray the Palestinian side of the story.