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The state of Internet privacy in 2013: Research roundup
2013 collection of recent research on internet privacy issues.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship: April 2013
April 2013 review of recent studies and reports that relate to news, social and civic media.
2013 research review of academic literature and practical tips for instilling good online information-seeking habits.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship: January 2013
January 2013 review of recent studies and reports relating to news, social and civic media.
The contested field of violent video games: Research roundup
2013 review of scholarly studies that examine possible positive and negative outcomes of violent video game play.
What is Big Data? Research roundup, reading list
2012 review of research studies on Big Data and its implications.
Mobile Leapfrogging and Digital Divide Policy
2013 paper from the New America Foundation reviewing existing scholarship on mobile phone use in the developing world and critically examining the potential downsides versus building more broadband infrastructure to support PCs.
When You Just Cannot Get Away: Technology and Work-Life Spillover
2013 study in Information, Communication & Society on the rates at which people who frequently use communications technologies report work and personal life coming into conflict.
Memory Tests Reduce Mind Wandering and Improve Learning of Online Lectures
2013 study from Harvard University exploring techniques for improving online learning and education.
2013 review of research and article in the journal Science on the global energy consumption of Internet and communications technology.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship?: March 2013
March 2013 review of the latest studies in the areas of journalism, digital media and communications, cross-posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab.
Facebook, Private Traits and Attributes: Predictions from Digital Records of Human Behavior
2013 study from the University of Cambridge [U.K.] and Microsoft Research published in PNAS on Facebook data and privacy.
Effects of the Internet on politics: Research roundup
A literature review of studies in the past few years that shed light on issues such as online political polarization.
Pew Internet: Teens and Technology 2013
2013 report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Harvard’s Berkman Society for Internet & Society on levels of teen mobile and Internet use.
Digital activism and organizing: research review and reading list
2013 review of studies on digital advocacy, Internet activism and citizen participation online.
The (Non)Violent World of YouTube: Content Trends in Web Video
2012 study in Journal of Communication showing how violence is less prevalent on YouTube than it is on network television.
Questioning the network: The year in digital media research, 2012-13
2012-13 review of 10 new interesting studies in the realm of digital media, social media and communications. A cross-post with Nieman Journalism Lab.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship?: February 2013
February 2013 review of the latest studies in digital-oriented academic disciplines; the new studies touch on journalism, social media and communications. A cross-post with Nieman Journalism Lab.
2013 survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project on Facebook user practices.
2013 study from the University of Georgia and the Connected Action Consulting Group on political interactions on Twitter and cross-ideological communications.
