Cascading Corruption News: Explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil's political scandals
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Cascading Corruption News : Explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil's political scandals. / Damgaard, Mads.
In: Opiniao Publica, Vol. 24, No. 1, 01.01.2018, p. 114-143.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Cascading Corruption News
T2 - Explaining the bias of media attention to Brazil's political scandals
AU - Damgaard, Mads
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Through a content analysis of 8,800 news items and six months of front pages in three Brazilian newspapers, all dealing with corruption and political transgression, this article documents the remarkable skew of media attention to corruption scandals. The bias is examined as an information phenomenon, arising from systemic and commercial factors of Brazil’s news media: An information cascade of news on corruption formed, destabilizing the governing coalition and legitimizing the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff. As this process gained momentum, questions of accountability were disregarded by the media, with harmful effects on democracy.
AB - Through a content analysis of 8,800 news items and six months of front pages in three Brazilian newspapers, all dealing with corruption and political transgression, this article documents the remarkable skew of media attention to corruption scandals. The bias is examined as an information phenomenon, arising from systemic and commercial factors of Brazil’s news media: An information cascade of news on corruption formed, destabilizing the governing coalition and legitimizing the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff. As this process gained momentum, questions of accountability were disregarded by the media, with harmful effects on democracy.
UR - https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/op/issue/view/1525/showToc
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 114
EP - 143
JO - Opiniao Publica
JF - Opiniao Publica
SN - 0104-6276
IS - 1
ER -
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