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1.

Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 07 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2020
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Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz
Princeton University and Bocconi University - Department of Economics
Downloads 13,405
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Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information

Stanford History Education Group Working Paper No. 2017-A1
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Oct 2017
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Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew
Stanford University Graduate School of Education and Stanford Graduate School of Education
Downloads 12,358
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Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 21 Mar 2018
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Joshua A. Tucker, Andrew Guess, Pablo Barbera, Cristian Vaccari, Alexandra Siegel, Sergey Sanovich, Denis Stukal and Brendan Nyhan
New York University (NYU), Princeton University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), University of Bologna - Faculty of Political Science, Stanford, New York University (NYU), Department of Politics, Students, New York University (NYU), Department of Politics, Students and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Anti-Minority Sentiment

Number of pages: 93 Posted: 28 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2020
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Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz
Princeton University and Bocconi University - Department of Economics
Downloads 6,687
5.

New Social Media and Impact of Fake News on Society

ICSSM Proceedings, July 2018, Chaing Mai, Thailand, pp. 77-96
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Dec 2018
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Kuldeep Nagi
Assumption University
Downloads 5,583
6.

Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2020-6
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Oct 2020
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Yochai Benkler, Casey Tilton, Bruce Etling, Hal Roberts, Justin Clark, Robert Faris, Jonas Kaiser and Carolyn Schmitt
Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings

Pennycook, G., Bear, A., Collins, E., & Rand, D. G. The implied truth effect: Attaching warnings to a subset of fake news headlines increases perceived accuracy of headlines without warnings. Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2020
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Gordon Pennycook, Adam Bear, Evan Collins and David G. Rand
University of Regina, Yale University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Donald Trump and the 'Oxygen of Publicity': Branding, Social Media, and Mass Media in the 2016 Presidential Primary Elections

Paper prepared for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2016
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Aug 2016
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Sarah Oates and Wendy W. Moe
Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 4,147
9.

Media as the Fourth Estate of Democracy

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 25 Aug 2014
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Prabhat Ranjan and Sindhuja Kashyap
Christ University School of Law and Christ University School of Law
Downloads 3,908
10.

Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing

Advances in Political Psychology, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 561
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2016
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Dan M. Kahan, Asheley Landrum, Katie Carpenter, Laura Helft and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Yale University - Law School, College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Tangled Bank Studios and University of Pennsylvania
Downloads 3,052
11.

The Political Economy of Populism

Number of pages: 121 Posted: 19 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2020
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Sergei Guriev and Elias Papaioannou
Sciences Po and London Business School

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12.

Impact of COVID-19 on the Media System. Communicative and Democratic Consequences of News Consumption during the Outbreak

Casero-Ripollés, Andreu (2020). “Impact of Covid-19 on the media system. Communicative and democratic consequences of news consumption during the outbreak”. El profesional de la información, v. 29, n. 2, e290223. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.mar.23
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 07 May 2020
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Andreu Casero-Ripolles
Jaume I University
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13.

Government Control of the Media

Journal of Public Economics, vol. 118, pp. 163-171, October 2014.
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2014
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Scott Gehlbach and Konstantin Sonin
University of Chicago and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 2,915
14.

Search and Politics: The Uses and Impacts of Search in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United States

Quello Center Working Paper No. 5-1-17
Number of pages: 204 Posted: 01 May 2017 Last Revised: 18 May 2017
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William H. Dutton, Bianca Reisdorf, Elizabeth Dubois and Grant Blank
University of Southern California, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte - College of Arts & Sciences, University of Ottawa and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
Downloads 2,683
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Lazy, Not Biased: Susceptibility to Partisan Fake News Is Better Explained by Lack of Reasoning Than by Motivated Reasoning

Pennycook, G. & Rand, D. G. (2018). Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.06.011
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 20 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2020
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Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand
University of Regina and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 2,628
16.

Totalitarianism Through Newspeak and Doublethink: An Evaluation Through George Orwell's 1984

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 25 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 13 May 2017
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Mukta Batra
Independent
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17.

Facebook is... Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation

APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
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Jessica T. Feezell, Meredith Conroy and Mario Guerrero
University of New Mexico - Department of Political Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Downloads 2,483
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Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama's 2012 Speeches: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric

Theory and Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 4(6), 1178-1187. doi:10.4304/tpls.4.6.1178-1187
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 26 Oct 2014
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Bahram Kazemian and Somayyeh Hashemi
Islamic Azad University (IAU) - Tabriz Branch and Islamic Azad University (IAU) - Tabriz Branch
Downloads 2,297
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Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics

Journal of Public Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 21 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
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Oscar Barrera, Sergei Guriev, Emeric Henry and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Paris School of Economics (PSE), Sciences Po, Sciences Po and Paris School of Economics (PSE)

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20.

Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media

Forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics. DOI/10.1146/annurev-economics-081919-050239
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
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Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Maria Petrova and Ruben Enikolopov
Paris School of Economics (PSE), Institute for Political Economy and Governance, Barcelona and Institute of Political Economy and Governance

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Downloads 2,208
21.

Artificial Intelligence: Risks to Privacy and Democracy

21 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 106 (2019), Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-37
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 13 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2019
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Karl M. Manheim and Lyric Kaplan
Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Loyola Law School Los Angeles - Alumni
Downloads 2,095
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The Digital Transformation of News Media and the Rise of Disinformation and Fake News

Digital Economy Working Paper 2018-02, Joint Research Centre Technical Reports
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 10 May 2018 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2018
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Bertin Martens, Luis Aguiar, Estrella Gomez-Herrera and Frank Mueller-Langer
Joint Research Centre, University of Zurich - Department of Business Administration, Joint Research Center of the European Commission and University of the Bundeswehr Munich
Downloads 2,030
23.

A Theory of Informational Autocracy

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2019
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Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
Sciences Po and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science
Downloads 2,013
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Fighting Misinformation on Social Media Using Crowdsourced Judgments of News Source Quality

Pennycook, G., & Rand. D. G. (2019). Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1806781116
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 17 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2019
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Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand
University of Regina and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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25.

Ideological Segregation Online and Offline

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 10-19, Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Working Paper No. 55.
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
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Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Brown University - Department of Economics

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Social Media, News Media and the Stock Market

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 02 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 29 Feb 2020
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Peiran Jiao, Andre Veiga and Ansgar Walther
Maastricht University - Department of Finance, Imperial College London and Imperial College London
Downloads 1,900
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Information Disorder in Asia and the Pacific: Overview of Misinformation Ecosystem in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 14 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2019
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Kanchan Kaur, Shyam Nair, Yenni Kwok, Masato Kajimoto, Yvonne T. Chua, Ma. Diosa Labiste, Carol Soon, Hailey Jo, Lihyun Lin, Trieu Thanh Le and Anne Kruger
Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, Independent, The University of Hong Kong - Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of the Philippines, Diliman - Department of Journalism, University of the Philippines, Diliman - Department of Journalism, National University of Singapore (NUS), The University of Hong Kong - Journalism and Media Studies Centre, National Taiwan University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Mar 2013
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Joseph DiGrazia, Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen and Fabio Rojas
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing and Indiana University
Downloads 1,840
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Political Advertising in the 21st Century: The Rise of the YouTube Ad

APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
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Travis N. Ridout, Erika Franklin Fowler and John Branstetter
Washington State University, Wesleyan University - Government and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 1,786
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Online Political Participation: Slacktivism or Efficiency Increased Activism? Evidence from the Brazilian Ficha Limpa Campaign

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Nov 2012
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Anita Breuer and Bilal Farooq
German Development Insitute and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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3G Internet and Confidence in Government

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 148 Posted: 16 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2020
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Sergei Guriev, Nikita Melnikov and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Sciences Po, Princeton University and Paris School of Economics (PSE)

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Pre-Primary News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Race: Trump's Rise, Sanders' Emergence, Clinton's Struggle

HKS Working Paper No. 16-023
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2016
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Thomas E. Patterson
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
Downloads 1,608
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Belief in Fake News Is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking

Bronstein, M., Pennycook, G. Bear, A., Rand, D. G., & Cannon, T. (2018). Belief in Fake News is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.09.005
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 17 May 2018 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
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Michael Bronstein, Gordon Pennycook, Adam Bear, David G. Rand and Tyrone Cannon
Yale University, University of Regina, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Yale University
Downloads 1,592
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Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Number of pages: 115 Posted: 18 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2021
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Roee Levy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,538
35.

The Impact of Political Ideology on Concern and Behavior During COVID-19

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2020
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Eric Joseph van Holm, Jake Monaghan, Dan C. Shahar, JP Messina and Chris Surprenant
University of New Orleans, University of New Orleans, University of New Orleans, University of New Orleans and University of New Orleans
Downloads 1,503
36.

How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy?

NYU Stern School of Business, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-05
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2020
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Max Raskin, Fahad Saleh and David Yermack
New York University School of Law, Wake Forest University - Schools of Business and New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business

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Downloads 1,497
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Framing in Social Media: How the US Congress Uses Twitter Hashtags to Frame Political Issues

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Aug 2013
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Libby Hemphill, Aron Culotta and Matthew Heston
University of Michigan, Illinois Institute of Technology and Illinois Institute of Technology - Department of Humanities
Downloads 1,467
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Epistemic Spillovers: Learning Others’ Political Views Reduces the Ability to Assess and Use Their Expertise in Nonpolitical Domains

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 18-22
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2018
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Joseph Marks, Eloise Copland, Eleanor Loh, Cass R. Sunstein and Tali Sharot
University College London - Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, University College London, Harvard Law School and University College London - Affective Brain Lab, Department of Experimental Psychology
Downloads 1,428
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Disinformation and Social Bot Operations in the Run Up to the 2017 French Presidential Election

First Monday 22(8) - August 7, 2017
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2017
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Emilio Ferrara
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
Downloads 1,412
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Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 24, p. 171, 2010, Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2010-3
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 13 May 2014
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Wendy Seltzer
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Downloads 1,331
41.

Why Does Balanced News Produce Unbalanced Views?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 18 May 2017
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Edward L. Glaeser and Cass R. Sunstein
Harvard University - Department of Economics and Harvard Law School

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42.

Is the Chinese Anti-Corruption Campaign Authentic? Evidence from Corporate Investigations

29th Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting 2018, Finance Down Under 2019 Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance, Paris December 2018 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI, PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 20 May 2016 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2021
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John M. Griffin, Clark Liu and Tao Shu
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance, Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Downloads 1,250
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Informational Autocracy: Theory and Empirics of Modern Authoritarianism.

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 02 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2018
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Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
Sciences Po and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science

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Downloads 1,247
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Blogs as an Alternative Public Sphere: The Role of Blogs, Mainstream Media, and TV in Russia's Media Ecology

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2014-8
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 04 May 2014
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Bruce Etling, Hal Roberts and Robert Faris
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Downloads 1,234
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Capitol Offense: Is Donald Trump Guilty of Inciting a Riot at the Capitol?

Capitol Offense: Is Donald Trump Guilty of Inciting a Riot at the Capitol?, ___ J.L. & PUB. POL’Y ___ (forthcoming 2021).
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 27 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 19 May 2021
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Michael Conklin
Angelo State University - Business Law
Downloads 1,199
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Does Media Fragmentation Produce Mass Polarization? Selective Exposure and a New Era of Minimal Effects

APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2010
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Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson
Temple University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Riverside - Department of Political Science
Downloads 1,199
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Governance of the Facebook Privacy Crisis

20 Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law & Policy (2020)
Number of pages: 107 Posted: 04 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2020
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Lawrence J. Trautman
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads 1,193
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Reflections: US Coronavirus Crisis Management--Learning from Failure Donald Trump and More, January-April, 2020

Journal of Change Management 2020
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 May 2020
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Philip Mirvis
Babson College - Lewis Institute
Downloads 1,190
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Internet Meme and Political Discourse: A Study on the Impact of Internet Meme as a Tool in Communicating Political Satire

Journal of Content, Community & Communication Amity School of Communication, Vol. 6 Year 3, June - 2017
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 31 Dec 2019
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Anushka Kulkarni
Amity University Mumbai
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The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 Dec 2020
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Thomas Fujiwara, Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz
Princeton University, Princeton University and Bocconi University - Department of Economics

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