Measuring Media Partisanship during Election: The Case of 2019 Indonesia Election

Ardian Maulana () and Hokky Situngkir

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Abstract: Analysis of media partisanship during election requires an objective measurement of political bias that frames the content of information conveyed to the audience. In this study we propose a method for political stance detection of online news outlets based on the behavior of their audience in social media. The method consists of 3 processing stages, namely hashtag-based user labeling, network-based user labeling and media classification. We applied this methodology to the tweet dataset related to the 2019 Indonesian general election, to observed media alignments during the election. Evaluation results show that the proposed method is very effective in detecting the political affiliation of twitter users as well as predicting the political stance of news media. Over all, the stance of media in the spectrum of political valence confirms the general allegations of media partisanship during 2019 Indonesian election. Further elaboration regarding news consumption behavior shows that low-credibility news outlets tend to have extreme political positions, while partisan readers tend not to question the credibility of the news sources they share.

Keywords: news media network; label propagation algorithm; twitter; election; media partisanship; news consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C60 C63 C79 C80 C90 D83 D85 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-05-01
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