arXiv cs.CY· Mohammad Yousuf, Arif Md Tareque Habib·· 4 天前AI 评分23
结构性依赖、模仿还是从众？全球媒体间议程设置的多智能体模拟
Structural Dependence, Imitation or Herding? A Multi-Agent Simulation of Global Intermedia Agenda Setting
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一项多智能体模拟研究测量了孟加拉国、肯尼亚、南非、印度、马来西亚和尼日利亚的18家国家媒体，在2022-2024年乌克兰与加沙战争及两次联合国气候大会上，对美英等4家核心媒体的报道关注度、角度和发布时机的跟随程度。
正文 · 原文
Abstract:News outlets in poorer countries cover the world much as the leading outlets of rich countries do. Two explanations compete. One says they depend on Western news agencies for lack of resources. The other says they choose to copy prestigious outlets or whoever moves first. Observation cannot tell these apart. This study measured how closely 18 national outlets in Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa, India, Malaysia and Nigeria followed four core outlets in how much attention they gave, which angle they took and when they published, on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and two UN climate conferences in 2022-2024. It then ran a simulation in which language models acted as the outlets' editors and dependence, imitation and herding were switched on and off. Of nine tests, one held: outlets that relied more on wire copy published sooner after the core did. Tier and local stake showed no effect distinguishable from none. The herding test was supported and the imitation test was not. The simulation did not decide between the mechanisms, because the dependence rule, as fitted, reduced to publishing wire copy. Wire copy sets the clock of the periphery's foreign news. Whether it sets the agenda stays open.
| Comments: | 20 pages, 3 figures, 15 tables. Code and data: this https URL, DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23330238 |
| Subjects: | Computers and Society (cs.CY); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.20144 [cs.CY] |
| (or arXiv:2610.20144v1 [cs.CY] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.20144 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Mohammad Yousuf [view email]
[v1]
Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:04:25 UTC (178 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.CY · arxiv.org