Exploring Russian cyberspace: Collective action and the networked public sphere
2012 study by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Russia’s relative Internet freedom.
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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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Tweeting Is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions
2012 paper from Microsoft Research on assessing the credibility of tweets.
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Who gives a tweet? Evaluating microblog content value
2012 study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and Georgia Institute of Technology on audience attitudes and Twitter content.
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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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Explaining variation in Twitter adoption among a diverse group of young adults
2011 study from Northwestern University on different motivations among teens who use Twitter.
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Pew Research: Twitter and the 2012 campaign
2011 report from the Pew Research Center on social media dynamics around the 2012 presidential nominating contest in the United States.
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Predicting tie strength with social media
2009 paper by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign attempted to predict the strength of real-world relationships based on social media interactions.
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Civil movements: Facebook and Twitter in the Arab Spring
2011 study by the Dubai School of Government on social networking access and usage during the region’s 2011 democracy movements.
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