 Information Manipulation Through the MediaHanjoon Jung (hanjoonjung8@gmail.com) Journal of Media Economics, 2009, vol. 22, issue 4, 188-210 Abstract: This article models media manipulation in which a sender or senders manipulate information through the media to influence receivers. This article shows that if there is only 1 sender who has a conditional preference for maintaining its credibility in reporting accurate information and if the receivers face a coordination situation without information about their opponents' types, the sender could influence the receivers to make decisions according to the sender's primary preference by manipulating the information through the media, which makes the report common knowledge. This is true even when the sender and the receivers have contradictory primary preferences. This result extends to the cases in which the sender has imperfect information or in which the sender's primary preference is to maintain its credibility. In the case of multiple senders, however, when there is enough competition among the senders or when simultaneous reporting takes place, the receivers could play their favored outcome against senders' preferences, which sheds light on a solution to the media manipulation problem. Date: 2009 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:jmedec:v:22:y:2009:i:4:p:188-210 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/08997760903375886 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Media Economics is currently edited by Nodir Adilov More articles in Journal of Media Economics from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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