4 papers
Who Owns the Online Media?
Ulrich Matter, Philine Widmer
Ownership matters for the media's watchdog role. We map the ownership networks behind thousands of online news outlets in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The networks reveal who is u…
Personalization of Web Search During the 2020 US Elections
Ulrich Matter, Roland Hodler, Johannes Ladwig
Search engines play a central role in routing political information to citizens. The algorithmic personalization of search results by large search engines like Google implies that…
Revealing the Anatomy of Vote Trading
Omar A. Guerrero, Ulrich Matter
Cooperation in the form of vote trading, also known as logrolling, is central for law-making processes, shaping the development of democratic societies. Empirical evidence of logro…
RWebData: A High-Level Interface to the Programmable Web
Ulrich Matter
The rise of the programmable web offers new opportunities for the empirically driven social sciences. The access, compilation and preparation of data from the programmable web for…