@inproceedings{6333851949804c57af32448b1752a38d,
title = "Applying Automated Text Analysis to Detect Ideologically-Motivated Manipulations in Mass-Media News",
abstract = "Partisan interest groups manipulate news to cultivate certain viewpoints; the partisan-oriented public creates demand for such polarized information; this forms a harmful feedback loop that amplifies societal polarization. This study presents the application of automated text analysis methodology to detect stylistic and semantic differences between mass-media news sources of different ideological leanings and radicalism levels to identify text characteristics that might indicate information manipulation. 640 articles on four contentious topics from four mass-media news sources, representing combinations of ideological leanings and radicalism levels, were collected from a seven-year period at times of low and high public interest and analyzed using DICTION software. Results showed significant effects of ideological leaning, radicalism level, and the level of public interest on twelve stylistic and semantic text characteristics. These findings were interpreted in the context of possible information manipulations. As a result, we proposed key text characteristics that might indicate information misrepresentation.",
keywords = "ideology, manipulation, mass-media news, misinformation, polarization, radicalism, semantic analysis, text analysis",
author = "Iryna Babik and Emily Eker and Dmytro Babik",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2023: {"}Rising like a Phoenix: Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Hu. All Rights Reserved.; 44th International Conference on Information Systems: Rising like a Phoenix: Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Human Endeavors with Digital Technologies, ICIS 2023 ; Conference date: 10-12-2023 Through 13-12-2023",
year = "2023",
language = "English",
series = "International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2023: {"}Rising like a Phoenix: Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Human Endeavors with Digital Technologies{"}",
publisher = "Association for Information Systems",
booktitle = "International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2023",
address = "United States",
}