Spotting Information biases in Chinese and Western Media
This addresses the problem of understanding media biases for researchers and policymakers, but it is incremental as it extends existing methods to a new context.
The study applied event detection and tracking to analyze information overlap and differences between Chinese and Western media, revealing a biased interest of China towards the West, especially regarding celebrities.
Newswire and Social Media are the major sources of information in our time. While the topical demographic of Western Media was subjects of studies in the past, less is known about Chinese Media. In this paper, we apply event detection and tracking technology to examine the information overlap and differences between Chinese and Western - Traditional Media and Social Media. Our experiments reveal a biased interest of China towards the West, which becomes particularly apparent when comparing the interest in celebrities.