Predicting U.S. elections through search volume in Google Trends
2011 Wellesley College study looking at whether Google Trends volume was predictive of 2008 and 2010 U.S. Congressional elections.
Media
Research roundups, articles, explainers and tip sheets about how journalists report the news and how audiences consume it
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Measuring influence in Twitter: The million follower fallacy
2010 study for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence on how social media users wield influence.
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Hispanics trail other groups in Web usage, confidence
2011 poll by the Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health on Internet usage among Latinos.
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Attacks against media and human rights websites
2010 study by Harvard’s Berkman Center on the frequency and type of Internet attacks on targeted groups.
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Understanding the participatory news consumer
2010 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism on trends in the news habits of Americans.
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Do babies learn from baby media?
2010 study by researchers from the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt on the number of words that 12- to 18-month-olds picked up from a best-selling instructional DVD for children.
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Pew Internet and American Life Project: Teens and distracted driving
2009 paper by the Pew Internet and American Life Project on the rate of cell phone use while driving among American teenagers.
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