Media Attention Research Articles

Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance, Platform Governance, and Value Creation of Platform Enterprises

Under the concepts of sustainable development and a sharing economy, the ESG performance of platform enterprises has played a significant role in measuring the operating status and responsible investment of platform enterprises. Platform enterprises have different typical characteristics from traditional enterprises. The mechanisms of ESG and financial performance needs to be further explored. The empirical analysis finds that: (1) the ESG performance of platform enterprises and its S index and G index has a positive impact on corporate financial performance. (2) Media attention plays a positive moderating role between the ESG and ROA. (3) Platform data governance and platform reputation governance are two internal and external paths for platform enterprises’ ESG performance to improve financial performance. (4)There is heterogeneity in the relationship between ESG and ROA in terms of platform enterprise scale and platform type. Based on the above conclusions, this paper provides reference experience for the ESG governance and value creation of platform enterprises.

Unorchestrated Symphony: documenta fifteen as a Site of Resistance

documenta fifteen (d15) was held in Kassel, Germany from June to September 2022, and sparked heated media attention and critical discussions before, during, and after the exhibition. With the indigenous curatorial concept of lumbung, the artistic directors, ruangrupa, a Jakarta-based artist collective, brought a new corpus of artists, artist collectives, artistic projects, and cosmologies largely from the global south to d15. Notwithstanding its decentralised curatorial method and rhizomatic exhibition structure, many critiques of d15 continue to take a top-down approach, focusing on its overarching structure, curatorial discourse, the curators’ trajectory, collective methodology, and the context of international mega-exhibitions. With a bottom-up approach and a lumbung community perspective, this essay examines some of the lumbung practices, including but not limited to social gatherings with feasts and festivals, struggles for land and natural resources, and women and queer groups’ practices. The essay argues that, in spite of challenges and limitations, the lumbung community have enabled d15 to become a site of resistance to colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy, a proposition that aligns with the initial vision for d15.

Environmental information disclosure and corporate financial performance: Evidence from China

AbstractCorporate environmental disclosure has gained prominence in capital markets, yet opinions vary on whether its benefits outweigh its costs. Based on a sample of Chinese listed A‐share firms spanning 2010–2020, we reveal that the environmental information disclosed by listed companies significantly enhances the economic value added. Key mechanisms include positive media attention, institutional investor shareholding and corporate R&D investment. Additionally, government investment in environmental governance plays a positive moderating role. Furthermore, we also find that non‐monetised disclosures bring more benefits than monetised ones. Also green signals have a peer effect in the same industry and province.

Annual report restatement, media attention and corporate accounting information quality

This study analyzes the relationship between annual report restatement, media attention and the quality of accounting information. The findings demonstrate that annual report restatement positively impacts enterprise accounting information quality, particularly when the restatement is caused by bad news. Annual report restatement affects the quality of accounting information by affecting the stock market dynamics. Specifically, bad news restatements exert a positive effect on accounting information quality by exerting downward pressure on stock prices. Furthermore, media attention significantly enhances the positive effect of annual report restatement on the quality of accounting information.

Media Attention and Compliance With the European Court of Human Rights

Media Attention and Compliance With the European Court of Human Rights

Digital finance, government regulation, and corporate capital market efficiency

This study explores how digital finance affects corporate capital market efficiency, especially after the new Securities Law. Using data from A-share companies listed on Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges (2017–2022), we find digital finance significantly boosts capital market efficiency, more so after the new law. Property rights and location also influence efficiency. Both media attention and green innovation mediate this process, enhancing efficiency.

Libraries in the age of Fourth Industrial Revolution: a systematic review based on scientometric and altmetric tools

Purpose Industries throughout the world have gone through four phases of the industrial revolution. Today, the authors are encountering the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0 or 4IR), which is characterized by the application of information and communication technologies in the industry. This study aims to evaluate the growth of literature in the context of libraries and the Fourth Industrial Revolution and then identify the active research actors, countries, affiliations and sources and the status of collaboration across various geographical locations. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review was conducted. The data were extracted from the Scopus database incorporating scientometric and altmetric indicators. The search terms were TITLE-ABS-KEY “Industry 4.0” OR “4IR” OR “Fourth Industrial Revolution” AND “Library 4.0” OR “librarian 4.0” OR “libraries” OR “library” OR “library service” without any limitation. The results identified 218 documents out of which 67 core documents are related to libraries. Analysis was performed using MS Excel and VOSviewer. Findings South Africa, Nigeria and South Korea were the three most productive countries in the field. Library Hi Tech News is the most productive journal. Collaboration among African countries like South Africa, Nigeria and Zimbabwe seems to be good and they constituted the largest share of documents. The research on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the context of libraries still lacks social media attention. Originality/value This study is the first systematic review in this area using a combination of scientometrics and altmetrics. The results will serve as a valuable reference for future researchers and policymakers.

Return to Orléans: Racism, Rumor, and Social Scientists in 1960s France

Abstract How did it become possible to think of a racism without racists? This article tackles this question by looking at the contested interpretation of a racist incident in France. In 1969, Jewish shop owners in Orléans were baselessly accused of kidnapping women in fitting rooms and trafficking them into sexual slavery. This antisemitic agitation rapidly attracted the attention of local authorities, national media, and social scientists, led by sociologist Edgar Morin. Morin’s study made these events into a famous case-study in disinformation, the “rumor of Orléans.” But Morin was only one of several actors who attributed different causes to racism in Orléans. All of them agreed that racism was a serious problem, but they could not agree on its causes. Compared to other incidents at the time which grabbed media attention, the uncertainty of events in Orléans allowed people to debate this. Morin’s contribution was to turn to communications and social psychology to deploy the concept of “rumor.” He dissolved the problem of racism into a problem of communication. This suggests that in order to understand the emergence of “racism without racists,” we have to pay close attention to the context in which theories emerged to make it thinkable, and to the relationship between analyses of racism and communication.

Reading class: Digital evidence about fiction and social class

Recent years have seen the return of social class to popular fiction with the success of international authors like Édouard Louis, Annie Ernaux, Sally Rooney and Douglas Stuart. In Scandinavia, working-class authors have topped bestseller lists since 2022 and have drawn attention in mass media. This study looks at readers of “class fiction” by analyzing data from the digital book platform eReolen. Using data for loan time and geographic municipality, I argue that the popularity of class fiction has been fueled by media attention and gain many of its readers from relatively prosperous areas in Denmark – as opposed to the people represented in the books.

Impact of executive overseas backgrounds on corporate tax–avoidance behaviors

To examine the impact of executives’ overseas background on corporate tax aggressive behaviors, this paper selects A-share listed companies in China's stock markets from 2017 to 2021 as samples and shows that executives’ overseas experience has a significant effect on corporate tax aggressiveness. Compared with state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the executive background of non-SOEs plays a more significant role in promoting tax aggressiveness. Furthermore, an increase in ownership concentration weakens the positive impact of executive overseas background. Additionally, Big Four auditing weakens the positive effects of executive overseas background on tax aggressiveness, and increased media attention diminishes the positive relationship.

Comparison of Mediterranean and Ukrainian Migration Impacts on V4 Countries

Today’s Europe still resonates with the migration crisis connected with the arrival of migrants from Africa and Asia. Despite its massive impact on Central Europe, the significant migratory flow from Ukraine avoids considerable media attention. This article compares the effect of the Mediterranean migration and Ukrainian migration on V4 countries before the Covid-19 pandemic. There is an significant disproportion in the volumes of the compared migratory flows favouring the Ukrainian migration. However, Mediterranean migration became a substantial issue in elections in particular V4 countries. Our analysis focuses on the causes of different perceptions of both migratory flows and their impacts on recipient countries at the social and foreign policy levels. According to our research, different perceptions of the flows by the people and politicians are connected to the level of immigrants’ cultural and linguistic proximity and their potential integration. As the current situation suggests, the stabilisation of the political situation in Ukraine will take a more extended period, and the subsequent social and economic renewal will take another period. We assume the migratory flows from Ukraine will continue in the following years. Similarly, the Mediterranean migratory flows are likely to continue, probably with the shifts in their intensity, depending on their home countries’ situation and the Schengen regulatory measures. All of the above-mentioned issues put pressure on recipient countries to create a long-term immigration strategy that would enable them to manage the migration flow-related problems without societal destabilisation. The submitted interdisciplinary article uses the theoretical basis of migration studies (immigration policies, push and pull factors) and international relations (neorealism). The methodology of the text is anchored in the analysis of the relevant literature and statistical sources. The title of the article suggests the use of the comparison method.

A Comparative Study of Public Support for the Zero-COVID Policy in Beijing, Taipei and Singapore: The Role of Media Attention and Perceived Social Impact

Abstract Asian governments employed drastically different strategies—zero-infection versus living with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)—to balance control of the global pandemic and minimize disruption. This study examines inter-society differences in public responses to their government’s anti-pandemic policies of zero-COVID strategy in China and neighboring societies. Three parallel telephone surveys were conducted in summer 2022 with a combined sample of 3,106 respondents in Beijing, Singapore, and Taipei. Findings provide a snapshot of public opinion toward zero-COVID policy in the late stage of the pandemic. Levels of strictness of pandemic-control measures across the 3 societies were found to be related to the public’s attention to the policy, its perceived social impact, and the extent to which they would support the policy. Furthermore, whether public attention enhanced or diminished the perception of its impact or support, and how these relationships changed depended on local circumstances. Chinese respondents in Beijing perceived their government’s unwavering zero-tolerance policy as having a low impact and tended to support the strict policy. Singaporeans living under the co-living policy viewed the zero-case strategy as disruptive and were less willing to support it.

Ireland, intellectual property and the political economy of information monopolies

Ireland's policies towards US-owned global digital intermediaries (Big Tech) have emerged as an international political issue and received global media attention. So far, political and media focus has been on the impact of Ireland's tax policies on the revenue-raising ability of other European states and perceptions of light touch regulation of those corporations based in the Republic. The current paper will focus on how Ireland's switch to a focus on capital allowances for the sizeable American tech corporations has enabled the latter to sustain their dominance in the digital transition through incentivizing and subsidizing their switch to assetization as a means of deriving investment. Assetization enables investment and profits based on present and future rents from intellectual property. We argue here that the assets and intellectual property of the tech giants are emblematic of a broader process of political–economic restructuring and information monopoly building. The evidence for this resides in Ireland's bumper rise in corporate tax from 2015. Ireland's facilitation of assetization is the end process of some broader institutional transformations that structure economic power.

Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes

AbstractThis article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence. Using key informant interviews and documents obtained under freedom of information (FOI), I analyse these programs against the multiple ‘dimensions’ of success proposed by Newman and common narrative frames around programme failure. I argue that the HAS was broadly successful across most dimensions of success, notwithstanding the adverse media attention. The study identifies four key factors driving HIP's failure: scheme design, installer training, demand control, and departmental expertise. All of these came back to the timeline pressures, driven by conflicting priorities, which in turn gave the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) more influence than would usually be the case. In comparison, HAS's success is attributed to crucial design choices, like the phased rollout and head contractor model. The article identifies the danger of ignoring subject matter expertise and poor policy/Cabinet processes, which have been reinforced by the recent Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme.Points for practitioners Demand‐driven programmes need to have demand‐side control techniques built into them. The role of central agencies needs to be carefully considered, particularly in relation to areas that are not their expertise, such as detailed programme development and implementation. Lessons about poor policy and Cabinet processes, as well as cultural change from the Pink Batts Royal Commission, do not appear to have been sufficiently embedded in the culture of the APS, as there are ongoing echoes of the same problems evident in the Robodebt Royal Commission.

SC-CNTs: Thin Film Transistors for High-Performance, Low-Power, Flexible Electronics

Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs) have gained a great deal of media attention over the past almost-two decades. From their theoretical usage as the foundational material for space elevators that would take travelers beyond earth’s atmosphere, to an active material that would allow engineers to create nanobots that internally repair or treat the human body, applications for SWNTs are numerous and have resonated within the imagination of scientists and the media alike. Fast forwarding to the modern era, we find that nanotubes still have a great deal of technological promise, some of which parallel those usages that were theoretically conceived many years ago.For over a decade, NanoIntegris Technologies Inc. has been at the forefront of synthesizing high-purity, electronically enriched SWNT’s and, during that time, has found that our materials have proven to transcend from the theoretical to practical-usage realm. With over 1,900 publications citing the usage of NanoIntegris’ high performance materials, we have not only seen the beneficial properties of our materials studied via techniques such as scanning electron microscopy but have also received many positive use-cases for our materials such as being an additive of highly-conductive, electrode (anode/ cathode) slurries of next-generation lithium-ion batteries, to being used as an active for the highly-sensitive detection of COVID antigens.Within my talk, I will display the usage of our high-purity semiconducting (≥99%) single walled carbon nanotubes to make the next generation of high-performance electronics. I will focus upon the usage of our IsoSol-S100 semiconducting solution that served as the spin-coated semiconducting layer within a short channel (<10 µm) thin film transistor with ON/OFF of 104, a device thickness of 400 nm, and a mobility of 39 cm2V-1s-1. I will further discuss the usage of our IsoNanotubes-S 99% solution to serve as the active material within a low-power, wearable Radio Frequency biosensor that covers the GSM spectra, with an operation frequency up to 2.1GHz, and that can serve as both a frequency multiplier and mixer.

Investor attention and environmental performance of Chinese high-tech companies: the moderating effects of media attention and coverage sentiment

In the context of China’s rapid economic development, corporate pollutant emissions are increasing, underscoring the imperative for further enhancement of corporate environmental performance. Given the significance of high-tech enterprises in the environmental domain, this study examines the impact of investor attention on the corporate environmental performance of Chinese high-tech enterprises. This study utilized data from 463 high-tech enterprises in mainland China from 2011 to 2022 and employed the dynamic panel generalized method of moments (GMM) technique. The findings indicate that investor attention has a negative impact on the corporate environmental performance of high-tech enterprises. This research also finds that both media attention and coverage sentiment mitigate the negative relationship between investor attention and environmental performance of high-tech firms. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that in the sample of IT service industry, heightened media attention exacerbates the negative impact of investor attention on corporate environmental performance, and media coverage sentiment exhibits no significant moderating effect. Within samples of non-polluting and state-owned enterprises, increased media coverage sentiment amplifies the negative impact of investor attention on corporate environmental performance. This paper suggests that policymakers should foster a media environment that supports accurate and thorough environmental reporting while businesses should proactively engage with media to align investor perceptions with sustainable environmental practices.

The impact of digital carbon communication on market response to carbon disclosure: The moderating effects of external supervision

This study investigates the influence of digital carbon communication quality (DCC) on market response to carbon disclosure within the reality of government environmental regulation and media attention, employing a DCC index constructed by an Autoencoder model. Using Chinese data from 2015 to 2022, we find that DCC mitigates negative market response to carbon disclosure by alleviating information asymmetry and enhancing corporate environmental performance, especially when government environmental regulation or media attention is insufficient. Moreover, DCC exhibits a stronger impact on the carbon disclosure market responses in firms with low institutional shareholdings, non-state-owned firms, and firms with high emission levels.

Corporate Environmental Responsibility, Media Attention and Financial Performance

Corporate Environmental Responsibility, Media Attention and Financial Performance

Impact of the National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Zone on corporate ESG: Evidence from China

This study examines the effect of implementation of the National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Zone (NECCDZ) policy in China as a quasi-natural experiment on Chinese listed firms’ ESG performance. By utilizing a multi-period differences-in-differences model, the empirical results reveal that the NECCDZ policy boosted the ESG performance of China’s A-share listed companies in the pilot region by an average of 38%. However, the NECCDZ policy has differential effects on the three subdimensions of ESG. More specifically, the NECCDZ policy significantly improves the social responsibility performance and governance performance of the company, and has a lagged positive effect on the environmental performance. The mechanism analysis shows that the NECCDZ policy enhances corporate ESG practices by promoting enterprise green technology innovation, while media attention positively moderates the impact of the NECCDZ policy on corporate ESG practices. Further analysis shows that the NECCDZ policy also improves the enterprises’ financing environment through government subsidies and public investment. Overall, the empirical findings show the effectiveness of NECCDZ policy in enhancing ESG practices at the enterprise level and offer a new approach to improving corporate ESG finance in emerging markets such as China.

Digital transformation driving green innovation: Evidence from Chinese A-Share firms

With its “dual carbon” goals, Chinese firms are being challenged to improve both their environmental and economic performance. Previous research has found that digital transformation can foster the development of firms in various ways. Using a fixed-effects Poisson model, we examine China's A-share listed firms from 2009 to 2022 to elucidate the relationship between digital transformations and green innovation. The results show that digital transformation significantly promotes firms' green transformations. Moreover, digital transformation affects green innovations by attracting media attention, increasing analyst coverage, and reducing firms' rent-seeking behavior. The study further demonstrates that institutional investors and comprehensive green information disclosure can augment digital transformations' positive effects on green innovation.