Internet filtering and circumvention tool usage report
2010 report by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society on global usage of Web-based tools designed to circumvent Internet content filtering.
Research roundups, articles, explainers and tip sheets about how journalists report the news and how audiences consume it
2010 report by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society on global usage of Web-based tools designed to circumvent Internet content filtering.
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2011 study by the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in Psychological Science on the underlying factors that drive people to share news
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2011 FCC report on the changing information environment in the 21st century and the challenges for both the press and democracy.
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2009 study by Stanford University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on mental effects of consumption of several media streams at once.
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2010 study in American Sociological Review on characteristics of social advocacy organizations and their level of media attention.
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2011 study by SUNY-Buffalo published in Sexuality and Culture on depictions of women over time in a prominent, trend-setting media space in popular culture.
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2011 study by Columbia, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard on effects of Internet search engines on human memory.
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2009 paper in International Studies Quarterly on the impact of media freedom on human rights, dependant on the presence of other democratic institutions
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2011 study in the Policy & Internet Journal on claims that mass email techniques used to mobilize people reduce activist energy.
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2011 study by the Pew Research Center on levels of trust, tolerance and engagement among social networking users.
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