Stuart Soroka

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    Real-time analysis shows that the first debate shifted attitudes among Twitter users towards Biden and the second solidified them.

Real-time analysis shows that the first debate shifted attitudes among Twitter users towards Biden and the second solidified them.

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While debates tend to have a limited effect on a presidential election’s outcome, they can nonetheless play an important role in the way that the media frames the campaigns. In new research Lisa Singh, Ceren Budak, Kornraphop Kawintiranon and Stuart Soroka analysed real-time responses of Twitter uses to the first and second presidential debates. They found that the first […]

November 1st, 2020|Ceren Budak, Elections and party politics across the US, Kornraphop Kawintiranon, Lisa Singh, Stuart Soroka|0 Comments|
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    How President Trump helped the media lose the 2018 midterm elections

How President Trump helped the media lose the 2018 midterm elections

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Historically, leading up to Election Day, media coverage tends to follow the polls: when one party is doing better with voters, the media’s tone tends to be more favorable towards them. But in a new analysis of news coverage of midterm elections since 2002, Stuart Soroka finds that the 2018 midterms were a different story. If the midterms had […]

November 30th, 2018|Democracy and culture, Stuart Soroka|0 Comments|
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    Why do we pay more attention to negative news than to positive news?

Why do we pay more attention to negative news than to positive news?

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A growing body of evidence illustrates the human tendency to prioritise negative over positive news content. But why is this? Stuart Soroka suggests that humans may neurologically or physiologically predisposed towards focusing on negative information because the potential costs of negative information far outweigh the potential benefits of positive information.

A recent article by Arianna Huffington argues for the importance – and popularity – […]

May 27th, 2015|Democracy and culture, Stuart Soroka|2 Comments|
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    The media and public opinion react to changes in economic conditions, not the state of the economy in general.

The media and public opinion react to changes in economic conditions, not the state of the economy in general.

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Economic headlines have come to dominate media reports in our contemporary 24/7 news cycle. But how are economic changes reflected by the media? By comparing more than 30,000 news stories from the New York Times and The Washington Post with economic and consumer indicators, Stuart Soroka, Dominik Stecula, and Christopher Wlezien, find that the media and public opinion react […]

January 15th, 2015|Christopher Wlezien, Democracy and culture, Dominik Stecula, Economy, Elections and party politics across the US, Stuart Soroka|0 Comments|
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