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Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media

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Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina, Petrova, Maria, Enikolopov, Ruben·2020·Annual Review of Economics
DOI 10.1146/annurev-economics-081919-050239
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How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical evidence from the recent political economy literature, focusing primarily on work that considers traits that distinguish the Internet and social media from traditional off-line media, such as low barriers to entry and reliance on user-generated content. We discuss the main results about the effects of the Internet in general, and social media in particular, on voting, street protests, attitudes toward government, political polarization, xenophobia, and politicians’ behavior. We also review evidence on the role of social media in the dissemination of fake news, and we summarize results about the strategies employed by autocratic regimes to censor the Internet and to use social media for surveillance and propaganda. We conclude by highlighting open questions about how the Internet and social media shape politics in democracies and autocracies.

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Authors
Zhuravskaya, E., Petrova, M., & Enikolopov, R.
Affiliations
  • Paris School of Economics (FR)
  • New Economic School (RU)
  • Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
ORCID
Venue
Annual Review of Economics
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2020-08-02
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
415-438
ISSN
  • 1941-1383 (ISSN-L)
  • 1941-1391
DOI
10.1146/annurev-economics-081919-050239
OpenAlex
W3123948795
Cited by
560
References
88
Citations by year
2026: 76 · 2025: 105 · 2024: 133 · 2023: 113 · 2022: 74 · 2021: 38 · 2020: 14
FWCI
20.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
public-domain
Locations
  • Annual Review of Economics (publishedVersion, public-domain)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
Funders
European Commission
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
Keywords
internet, social media, political outcomes, voting, street protests, attitudes toward government, political polarization, xenophobia, fake news, internet censorship, authoritarian regimes, surveillance, propaganda, democracy

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