Social Media and Political Change

This introductory essay highlights the key findings, methodological tool kit, and production process of this Special[...]

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Topics Arab Spring Social Media Social Movements

The Dictators’ Digital Dilemma: When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks?

...doing so. When and why do states disconnect their digital networks is a principle question we[...]

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Topics Computational Social Science

When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks?

...sources, including major news media, specialized news services, and international experts, to construct an event log[...]

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Topics Governance

Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?

...Egypt, this research included creating a unique database of information collected from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. [...]

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Topics Arab Spring Social Media

Digital Media and the Arab Spring

...digital media in modern protest? Digital media helped to turn individualized, localized, and community-specific dissent into[...]

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Topics Arab Spring Social Media

Information Technologies and Omnivorous News Diets Over Three U.S. Presidential Elections

...in this system of political communication, for a growing portion of the population, news diets are[...]

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Topics Elections

Political Parties & Voter Privacy: Australia, Canada, the United States and United Kingdom in Comparative Perspective

...Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States to assess the current state of electorate data, compare[...]

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Topics Elections Political Communication Privacy

New Challenges to Political Privacy: Lessons from the First U.S. Presidential Race in the Web 2.0 Era

...As a call for further research, we then outline a set of potential normative concerns about[...]

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Topics Elections Governance

ICT Diffusion and Distribution Dataset, 1990-2007

This data set covers the years 1990 through 2007 and contains two types of indicators for[...]

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Topics Computational Social Science

Information Policy and Technology Diffusion: Lessons from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia

...but have followed different policies to achieve these results. Yet Slovenia, which did none of the[...]

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Topics Governance Teaching Resources

Comparing Digital Divides: Internet Access and Social Inequality in Canada and the United States

What is the best way to measure and track the digital divide, in a comparative manner,[...]

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Topics Digital Divide Social Inequality

Telecommunications Reform, Internet Use and Mobile Phone Adoption in the Developing World

How do telecommunications policies influence technology adoption? Has regulatory reform helped mitigate or exacerbate the digital[...]

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Topics Digital Divide Governance Mobile Phones Original Data Political Communication Political Economy Political Economy of Media Social Inequality

Sizing Up Information Societies

When researchers study technology diffusion in a global and comparative manner, they often find that economic[...]

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Topics Big Data

A Case of Mistaken Identity? News Accounts of Hacker and Organizational Responsibility for Compromised Digital Records

The computer hacker is one of the most vilified figures in the digital era, but to[...]

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Topics Computational Social Science Digital Activism Privacy

Learning to Search and Searching to Learn: Income, Education and Experience Online

Using data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project surveys, this article explores changing trends[...]

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Topics Social Theory

Channeling Diversity in the Public Spectrum

...to qualify as bidders, increased the diversity of ownership, and, if not, why? Analyzing data on[...]

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