Date and Time
2023-12-14 20:15
2023-12-14 21:30
Location
CASE 127
Economics Seminar-Fatih Serkant Adıgüzel
In recent decades, information manipulation in media has been the defining characteristic of the global wave of democratic backsliding. This paper offers an understudied information manipulation strategy during economic crises, reference point manipulation, by drawing on the insights from economic voting literature. Using the recent currency crisis from Turkey and analyzing the entire corpora of three media outlets, this paper shows that pro-government outlets manipulate citizens’ reference points about foreign economies by portraying them negatively. This negative portrayal increases as the crisis intensifies. These results shed light on specific strategies governments use for information manipulation.
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Fatih Serkant Adıgüzel