Chris Liebold
Aliya Andrich's article has been published this month in the International Journal of Press/Politics. The study offers a measured, longitudinal analysis of media sentiment toward US politicians during the 2010s.
Using advanced transformer-based classifiers for sentiment detection and state space models for time series analysis, the research provides new longitudinal evidence on how nearly 900,000 news articles portrayed 1,095 US politicians. Key findings reveal that while some female politicians received more negative coverage than their male counterparts, the pattern varied by party affiliation and media visibility. For instance, during both election and routine periods, female Democrats who received moderate media attention were portrayed less negatively than male Republicans, yet more critically than female Republicans and male Democrats. Moreover, the study shows that in most election years, both Democratic and Republican women received slightly more positive coverage, although highly visible politicians, particularly women, tended to attract more negative attention overall.
This study contributes to a deeper understanding of how news sentiment evolves in relation to gender and political context over time.
For more details on this groundbreaking work, please visit https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19401612251318187