Urgensi Kebijakan Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Mikro (PSBM) Pasca Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar (PSBB) Dalam Penanganan Covid 19 Di Kota Pekanbaru Tahun 2020

After the implementation of Large-Scale Social Restrictions, Pekanbaru City enters the New Normal condition based on the Pekanbaru Mayor Circular regarding the new normal life order. The new life order policy or New Normal actually led to an increase in COVID 19 cases, therefore the Pekanbaru City Government issued a micro-scale social restriction policy, especially in sub-districts that were considered to have the highest rate of spread of COVID 19. This study aims to determine the urgency of micro-scale social restriction policy. The method in this research uses qualitative methods by collecting data sources from legal products, articles and news from the mass media as well as interviews with research sources. The results of this study indicate that the urgency of the presence of this Micro-Scale Social Restriction policy is seen in two ways. First, as an initial step for community habituation in facing the new life order or the new normal. The community is not ready to live in a new normal framework so that less-reaching habituation is needed, namely micro-scale social restrictions. Second, the micro-scale social restriction policy was able to reduce the number of health protocol violations. However, it turns out that the decrease in the number of health protocol violations has no correlation with the decrease in the number of positive COVID cases. For 2 reasons, the implementation of this policy was in fact ineffective in suppressing the spread of COVID 19 in Pekanbaru City so that its enforcement was stopped

NELA-GT-2018: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles

In this paper, we present a dataset of 713k articles collected between 02/2018-11/2018. These articles are collected directly from 194 news and media outlets including mainstream, hyper-partisan, and conspiracy sources. We incorporate ground truth ratings of the sources from 8 different assessment sites covering multiple dimensions of veracity, including reliability, bias, transparency, adherence to journalistic standards, and consumer trust. The NELA-GT-2018 dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ULHLCB.Comment: Published at ICWSM 201

Persuading the enemy: estimating the persuasive effects of partisan media with the preference-incorporating choice and assignment design

Does media choice cause polarization, or merely reflect it? We investigate a critical aspect of this puzzle: how partisan media contribute to attitude polarization among different groups of media consumers. We implement a new experimental design, called the Preference-Incorporating Choice and Assignment (PICA) design, that incorporates both free choice and forced exposure. We estimate jointly the degree of polarization caused by selective exposure and the persuasive effect of partisan media. Our design also enables us to conduct sensitivity analyses accounting for discrepancies between stated preferences and actual choice, a potential source of bias ignored in previous studies using similar designs. We find that partisan media can polarize both its regular consumers and inadvertent audiences who would otherwise not consume it, but ideologically-opposing media potentially also can ameliorate existing polarization between consumers. Taken together, these results deepen our understanding of when and how media polarize individuals.Accepted manuscrip

Two Tales of the World: Comparison of Widely Used World News Datasets GDELT and EventRegistry

In this work, we compare GDELT and Event Registry, which monitor news articles worldwide and provide big data to researchers regarding scale, news sources, and news geography. We found significant differences in scale and news sources, but surprisingly, we observed high similarity in news geography between the two datasets.Comment: To be appeared in ICWSM'1

Breaking the News: First Impressions Matter on Online News

A growing number of people are changing the way they consume news, replacing the traditional physical newspapers and magazines by their virtual online versions or/and weblogs. The interactivity and immediacy present in online news are changing the way news are being produced and exposed by media corporations. News websites have to create effective strategies to catch people's attention and attract their clicks. In this paper we investigate possible strategies used by online news corporations in the design of their news headlines. We analyze the content of 69,907 headlines produced by four major global media corporations during a minimum of eight consecutive months in 2014. In order to discover strategies that could be used to attract clicks, we extracted features from the text of the news headlines related to the sentiment polarity of the headline. We discovered that the sentiment of the headline is strongly related to the popularity of the news and also with the dynamics of the posted comments on that particular news.Comment: The paper appears in ICWSM 201