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Results: 45 Studies on Digital Communication (of 52 total)

Structural Diversity in Social Contagion: Studying Facebook

Competition Among Memes in a World with Limited Attention

Exploring Russian Cyberspace: Digitally Mediated Collective Action and the Networked Public Sphere

Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy

The Trend of Class, Race and Ethnicity in Social Media Inequality

State of the News Media 2012

Effects of the Internet on politics: Research roundup

The Arab Spring and the Internet: Research roundup

Tweeting Is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions

Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square

Analysis of the Information Behaviors, Goals and Intentions of Frequent Internet Users

Optimal Sampling of News Organizations’ Paid Content

Misinformation and Fact-checking: Research Findings from Social Science

Why Most Facebook Users Get More Than They Give

Who Gives a Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value

Do Voters Perceive Negative Campaigns as Informative Campaigns?

New Internet World: A Global Perspective on Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Trust and Security Online

Quantifying Global Transfers of Copyrighted Content Using BitTorrent

Social Selection and Peer Influence in an Online Social Network

Ideological Segregation Online and Offline

Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment

Explaining Variation in Twitter Adoption among a Diverse Group of Young Adults

Exploring the Role of Political Discussion for Online Political Participation

Pew Research: Twitter and the 2012 Campaign

Attacks, Acclaims and Rebuttals on Political Blogs During the 2008 Presidential Election

Global Shift in the Social Relationships of Networked Individuals: Meeting and Dating Online Comes of Age

2008 Presidential Election, 2.0: Content Analysis of User-Generated Political Facebook Groups

Incivility and Outrage in American Politics: Political Discourse in Blogs, Talk Radio and Cable News

Daily Deals: Prediction, Social Diffusion and Reputational Ramifications

Pew Report: Americans and Their Cellphones

Patterns and Effects of Social Networking Site Use among Young Adults

Instant Messages vs. Speech: Different Neurochemical Responses

Predicting Tie Strength With Social Media

Civil Movements: Facebook and Twitter in the Arab Spring

Digital Media Education and Online Civic and Political Participation

Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organizing

Internet Filtering and Circumvention Tool Usage Report

Arousal Increases Social Transmission of Information

Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age

Cognitive Control in Media Multitaskers

Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips

Online Political Mobilization and Advocacy Groups: Beyond Clicktivism

Social Networking Sites: Levels of Trust, Engagement

Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

Weapon of the Strong? Participatory Inequality and the Internet

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