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An Empirical Study on Readers' Intuition of the Political Stances in News Headlines271 views
Author
Palmieri, Elizabeth, Computer Science - School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
Advisors
Ji, Yangfeng, EN-Comp Science Dept, University of Virginia
Abstract
Prior research shows when reading news articles, most Americans solely read the headlines with less than half continuing to read the full story. However, it is unclear to what extent the readers can appreciate the framing of headlines, particularly when the news sources are unrevealed. In this work, political science is combined with natural language processing in order to analyze the effects of implicit bias within news headlines on the public. Americans of voting age annotated a dataset discerning their sentiment towards news headlines which was then leveraged by clustering and classification methods in order to understand the behaviors of the readers and how they are impacted by news headlines. Through the analysis of this dataset, I found that the interpretation of headlines is not always consistent with the self-identified political affiliation and that implicit bias affects both writer and reader.
Degree
MS (Master of Science)
Language
English
Rights
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Palmieri, Elizabeth. An Empirical Study on Readers' Intuition of the Political Stances in News Headlines. University of Virginia, Computer Science - School of Engineering and Applied Science, MS (Master of Science), 2022-12-06, https://doi.org/10.18130/yefn-nj20.
