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Open research questions in Media Influence and Politics

254 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,221 Media Influence and Politics papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The challenge of accounting for selective exposure in experimental studies of foreign shaming. The difficulty of identifying the distinct routes through which shaming can influence public opinion. The need to address concerns around multiple outcomes and multiple hypothesis testing.

    Who Reads Criticism Matters: How Selective Exposure Affects Public Backlash to Foreign Shaming · 2026 · DOI

  • Investigate the impact of criticism on issues where people have not yet made up their mind, - Examine the effect of shaming on public opinion in different contexts and cultures

    Who Reads Criticism Matters: How Selective Exposure Affects Public Backlash to Foreign Shaming · 2026 · DOI

  • The public continues to rely on the news media for information about hate (or bias) crime, yet little is known about how news workers select bias crimes to cover in ways that may impact public and political discourse.

    Investigating the Newsworthiness of Bias-Motivated Murders: A Media Distortion Analysis · 2026 · DOI

  • Abstract As extreme political views gain popularity and acceptability, the conditions under which media exposure to extreme right views contributes to this process, and strategies to counter media-induced persuasion and normalisation effects remain unclear.

    Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views · 2025 · DOI

  • However, few studies have comprehensively examined the determinants of contemporary MC coverage by local television news broadcasts.

    House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of Incumbents · 2024 · DOI

  • Notes 1Television viewing was not measured in 1976, and no data were collected in 1979 and 1981.

    Television and the erosion of regional diversity · 1986 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the literature on the impact of Indian assembly elections on the stock market. The analysis of sectoral indices during election periods is limited.

    Election waves and market ripples: decoding stock market reactions to India’s 2024 assembly elections · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could examine the effects of concrete political campaigns and political policies on individual enterprises within the sectors and give more comprehensive views of the market dynamics (Durnev, 2012).

    Election waves and market ripples: decoding stock market reactions to India’s 2024 assembly elections · 2026 · DOI

  • No large-scale evidence exists to quantify how often hosts and guests actually disagree. Measuring these exchanges is a significant challenge, as live broadcasts contain overlapping speakers, sarcasm, and billions of words of text.

    Disagreement Is Disappearing on U.S. Cable Debate Shows · 2026 · DOI

  • The existing literature focuses on censorship of political scandals but largely ignores day-to-day political content. There is a lack of research on the mechanism through which governments systematically persuade newspapers using the power of the purse.

    Paying the piper: government advertising and media bias · 2026 · DOI

  • The study acknowledges that more advanced econometric models and high-frequency datasets could further validate the findings. The research notes that the number of articles used for sentiment analysis is limited. The study recognizes that the selected sources represent highly influential financial media outlets, but may not be representative of all market participants.

    Decoding the 'Trump Trade': A FinBERT-Based Sentiment Analysis of Cryptocurrency Market Reactions · 2026 · DOI

  • The study suggests that future research could explore the impact of political events on other digital assets, such as tokens and stablecoins. The research recommends that future studies use more advanced econometric models and high-frequency datasets to further validate the findings. The study proposes that future research could investigate the role of social media and other online platforms in shaping investor sentiment and market outcomes in the context of cryptocurrency markets.

    Decoding the 'Trump Trade': A FinBERT-Based Sentiment Analysis of Cryptocurrency Market Reactions · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the analysis of trends in sports media investments in Türkiye. The gap is addressed by analyzing data from the Association of Advertisers and Deloitte.

    Trends, Analyses and Future Forecasts for Sports Media Investments · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research could investigate the impact of other factors on private investors' behavior. It could also explore the development of strategies to mitigate the effects of behavioral distortions.

    Behavioral distortions of private investors: the influence of the news background and the "crowd effect" on trading results · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in understanding the impact of the news background and crowd effect on private investors' behavior. It aims to fill this gap by exploring the influence of these factors on trading results.

    Behavioral distortions of private investors: the influence of the news background and the "crowd effect" on trading results · 2026 · DOI

  • Declining press freedom in both advanced and developing countries. Intense and persistent pressure on public finances due to elevated public debt and expanding expenditure needs.

    Press freedom and government spending efficiency · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the literature on the effect of media freedom on public expenditure efficiency. Prior work has emphasized the importance of institutions in explaining differences in economic development, but the specific role of media freedom has not been fully explored.

    Press freedom and government spending efficiency · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the literature on how people update their views in response to new information about social conditions. The authors argue that existing perceptions of the economy can condition how the public responds to new economic information, but this possibility has been largely ignored.

    Benchmarking in public updating of economic perceptions · 2026 · DOI

  • Perhaps more importantly, the micro-level foundations of what we have observed at the macro-level in the US remain to be seen. There, we can see very mixed results, and the model performance is not clearly better than what we see in Table 1, e.

    Benchmarking in public updating of economic perceptions · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the literature on strategic communication, where the receiver's commitment power has not been fully explored. The paper highlights the need for a robust framework that can handle dual uncertainty about the sender's preferences and information.

    Managing persuasion robustly: The optimality of quota rules · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in understanding the causal mechanisms behind political participation. It notes that isolating the effects of nationalization of media content and the decline of information-rich content remains an empirical challenge.

    National content and local political consequences: Evidence from public and private television · 2026 · DOI

  • The difficulty of finding exogenous sources of variation in emotions, particularly outside of an experimental setting, is a significant gap. Prior work has been impeded by this challenge, and the authors claim to address it. The gap in understanding how fear affects public demand for government intervention is also highlighted.

    Fear, soft propaganda, and the demand for government intervention: Quasi-experimental evidence from Russia · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of how online social networks influence the diffusion of social movements - The need to investigate the relationship between online social connectedness and collective action - The gap in knowledge about the effects of online network exposure on social movements

    The structure of online social networks and social movements: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter protests · 2025 · DOI

  • This argues that overlooking local elections could result in a gap in the literature, thus it focused on the effect of the 2021 local elections on the stock market in the Republic of North Macedonia.

    Do Local Political Elections Affect Daily Stock Returns? Evidence from the Republic of North Macedonia's MBI10 Index · 2024 · DOI

  • What remains to be seen, however, is whether high-NFM individuals are in fact less likely to expose themselves to news once they do encounter it online.

    Tuning Out (Political and Science) News? A Selective Exposure Study of the News Finds Me Perception · 2023 · DOI

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