An Empirical Exploration of Moral Foundations Theory in Partisan News Sources
Dean Fulgoni, Jordan Carpenter, Lyle Ungar, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro
Abstract
News sources frame issues in different ways in order to appeal or control the perception of their readers. We present a large scale study of news articles from partisan sources in the US across a variety of different issues. We first highlight that differences between sides exist by predicting the political leaning of articles of unseen political bias. Framing can be driven by different types of morality that each group values. We emphasize differences in framing of different news building on the moral foundations theory quantified using hand crafted lexicons. Our results show that partisan sources frame political issues differently both in terms of words usage and through the moral foundations they relate to.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1591
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3730–3736
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1591
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Dean Fulgoni, Jordan Carpenter, Lyle Ungar, and Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro. 2016. An Empirical Exploration of Moral Foundations Theory in Partisan News Sources. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 3730–3736, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- An Empirical Exploration of Moral Foundations Theory in Partisan News Sources (Fulgoni et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-2024-clasp/L16-1591.pdf