“Sexting” by high school students: An exploratory and descriptive study
2012 study in Archives of Sexual Behavior looking at the extent of the phenomenon among young people of texting revealing images to each other.
Media
Research roundups, articles, explainers and tip sheets about how journalists report the news and how audiences consume it
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Pew Research Center: Cell Internet use 2012
2012 survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project investigating the extent to which cell phones are being used for online activities
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Press secretaries, journalists and editors: Shaping local Congressional news coverage
2012 study in Political Communication on political public relations effects, journalists’ response, and the press coverage that results.
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No A 4 U: The relationship between multitasking and academic performance
2012 study in Computers & Education on how Facebook and instant messaging can hurt college students’ grades.
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Cognitive pitfall! Videogame players are not immune to dual-task costs
2012 study by Duke, Penn State and Colby on how skilled video game players are not necessarily better multitaskers.
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Effect of narrative news format on empathy for stigmatized groups
2012 study in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly on different reader responses to narrative stories versus policy stories, and the relative benefits of narrative stories.
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Research chat: David Karpf, scholar of Internet organizing and activism
2012 interview with George Washington assistant professor David Karpf about the changing patterns of Internet-based activism in America.
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Impact of mobile phone coverage on market participation: Evidence from Uganda
2009 study from the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies in World Development on how mobile technology can help farmers thrive.
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The value of fame: Preadolescent perceptions of popular media and their future aspirations
2011 study by the University of California-Los Angeles in Developmental Psychology on tween values and media engagement.
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Evaluating online labor markets for experimental research: Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk
2012 study by MIT, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, in Political Analysis on social science research participants on the Internet.
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