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The Political Economy of Social Media

The emergence of social media has reshaped the way humans communicate, interact and coordinate with each other. Assessing the impact of that transformation on politics has been one of the great social science questions of the last or decade or so, and will continue to occupy researchers for a long time to come. This book provides a snapshot of how economists in particular have been trying to answer this question. It contains 18 chapters, written by some of the leading scholars working on the topic, summarising empirical evidence on different dimensions of the political impact of social media.

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Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds) (2023), ‘The Political Economy of Social Media‘, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Allcott, H, L Braghieri, S Eichmeyer and M Gentzkow (2023), ‘The welfare effects of social media‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Braghieri, L, R Levy and A Makarin (2023), ‘Social media and mental health‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Levy, R (2023), ‘Social media, news consumption and polarisation‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Halberstam, Y and B Kinght (2023), ‘Homophily, group size and the diffusion of political information in social networks‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Guriev, S, N Melnikov and E Zhuravskaya (2023), ‘Political implications of the rise of mobile broadband internet‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Manacorda, M, G Tabellini and A Tesei (2023), ‘Mobile internet and the rise of communitarian politics‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Fujiwara, T, K Müller and C Schwarz (2023), ‘The effect of social media on elections: Evidence from the United States‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Campante, F, R Durante and F Sobbrio (2023), ‘Politics 2.0: The multifaceted effect of broadband internet on political participation‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Petrova, M, A Sen and P Yildirim (2023), ‘New technologies and political competition: The impact of social media communication on political contributions‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Enikolopov, R, A Makarin and M Petrova (2023), ‘Social media and protest participation: Evidence from Russia‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Fergusson, L and C Molina (2023), ‘Social media and mobilisation‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Manacorda, M and A Tesei (2023), ‘Liberation technology: Mobile phones and political mobilisation in Africa‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Bursztyn, L, G Egorov, R Enikolopov and M Petrova (2023), ‘Social media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Müller, K and C Schwarz (2023), ‘Can social media spur offline hatred?‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Qin, B, D Strömberg and W Yanhui (2023), ‘The political economy of social media in China‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Yang, D (2023), ‘Social media in autocracies‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Hatte, S and E Zhuravskaya (2023), ‘Social media and legacy media‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media

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Cage, J, N Hervé and B Mazoyer (2023), ‘Contagion from social media to mainstream media‘, in Campante, F, R Durante and A Tesei (eds), The Political Economy of Social Media, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/political-economy-social-media