Global protest, technology and social media: Research roundup
2012 review of scholarship on the Internet, social media and political activism around the world.
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Facebook experiment in social influence and political mobilization
2012 study in Nature that analyzes a large-scale experiment to influence voter behavior through messages on a social network.
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Media use, face-to-face communication and social well-being among 8-to-12-year-old girls
2012 study from Standford University published in Developmental Psychology on ’tween girl digital media use and development.
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Public intimacy: Disclosure interpretation and social judgments on Facebook
2012 study published in Journal of Communication from Cornell University on the interpretation and reception of intimate online disclosures.
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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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Structural diversity in social contagion: Studying Facebook
2012 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the mechanisms that explain people joining and engaging with Facebook.
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State of the United States news media, 2012
Study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports on the present situation for the news media and its potential future.
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Social media and participation in political protest: Observations from Tahrir Square
2012 study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the effects of social networks in the 2011 uprising in Egypt.
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Social selection and peer influence in an online social network
2011 study in PNAS on social networks and how friendships shape, or form around, shared tastes.
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Spread of behavior in an online social network experiment
2010 study by MIT in PNAS on social networks and the spread of health-related behaviors.
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