Who are we?

We are a network of researchers from various disciplines, such as Psychology, Media Studies, Linguistics, and Computer Science. Together we are developing systems and data sets to uncover media bias or unbalanced coverage. We share the common vision of understanding how and why humans perceive news content as being biased, or one-sided. Foremost,  we take an interdisciplinary approach to the problem. Are you a student, doctoral researcher, or senior researcher working in the same area? We’d love to get in touch and just connect! We are a network without our own funding, however, we have a group of very closely collaborating students and a larger set of general network partners. With the group being in very close and constant communication, we decided to call our network Media Bias “Group”.

Psychology

How do we perceive media bias?

Linguistics

How much of media bias is related to linguistic characteristics?

Computer Science

How can we automatically detect, efficiently store, and present media bias?

Economics/Political Science

Causality of bias in political and economic processes

Media bias data set creation

How can we develop data sets that support research and projects about media bias?