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Marital Satisfaction and Break-ups Differ across On-line and Off-line Meeting Venues
2013 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that online relationships often produce more long-lasting marriages, compared to couples who met off-line.
Unique in the Crowd: The Privacy Bounds of Human Mobility
2013 study in Scientific Reports demonstrating that small amounts of geographical data from cell phones can be used to identify individuals.
The state of Internet privacy in 2013: Research roundup
2013 collection of recent research on Internet privacy issues.
Mapping the Global Twitter Heartbeat: The Geography of Twitter
2013 study from Silicon Graphics International (SGI), the University of Illinois, and social media data vendor GNIP on geography and Twitter use.
Twitter, politics and the public: Research roundup
Updated June 2013: A review of scholarly studies that examine Twitter use by politicians, policymakers and the public.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship: May 2013
May 2013 collection of interesting nine new studies/reports in the realms of social and news media, global technology and more.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship: April 2013
April 2013 review of recent studies and reports that relate to news, social and civic media.
Privacy Protection Strategies on Facebook
2013 study from the University of Maryland and the University of Western Ontario published in Information, Communication and Society on young adults’ social and institutional privacy strategies on Facebook.
What’s New in Digital Scholarship: January 2013
January 2013 review of recent studies and reports relating to news, social and civic media.
Social media in the workplace: Research roundup
2013 collection of scholarship relating to social media and the workplace.
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.
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.
Innovation in Hybrid Spaces: 2011 U.N. Climate Summit and the Expanding Journalism Landscape
2013 study in Journalism on the converging practices of journalistic and advocacy organizations, as seen through the case of climate change-related coverage.
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.
State of the News Media 2013: Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism
2013 report from the Pew Research Center’s Project on Excellence in Journalism on troubling trends in the news industry, particularly the relationship between declining quality and negative consumer reaction.
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.


