The Political Economy of Social Media

Campante, Filipe; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea

The Political Economy of Social Media

Edited by Filipe Campante, Ruben Durante and Andrea Tesei

in CEPR Press Books from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2023 Written 2023-11
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Chapters in this book:

Can social media spur offline hatred?: MÃ¼ller, Karsten and Carlo Schwarz
Contagion from social media to mainstream media: Julia Cage, HervÃ©, Nicolas and Mazoyer, BÃ©atrice
Homophily, group size and the diffusion of political information in social networks: Yosh Halberstam and Brian Kinght
Liberation technology: Mobile phones and political mobilisation in Africa: Marco Manacorda and Andrea Tesei
Mobile internet and the rise of communitarian politics: Marco Manacorda, Guido Tabellini and Andrea Tesei
New technologies and political competition: The impact of social media communication on political contributions: Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen and Pinar Yildirim
Political implications of the rise of mobile broadband internet: Sergei Guriev, Nikita Melnikov and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Politics 2.0: The multifaceted effect of broadband internet on political participation: Filipe Campante, Ruben Durante and Francesco Sobbrio
Social media and legacy media: Sophie Hatte and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Social media and mental health: Luca Braghieri, Ro'ee Levy and Alexey Makarin
Social media and mobilisation: Leopoldo Fergusson and Carlos Molina
Social media and protest participation: Evidence from Russia: Ruben Enikolopov, Alexey Makarin and Maria Petrova
Social media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia: Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov and Maria Petrova
Social media in autocracies: David Yang
Social media, news consumption and polarisation: Ro'ee Levy
The effect of social media on elections: Evidence from the United States: Thomas Fujiwara, MÃ¼ller, Karsten and Carlo Schwarz
The political economy of social media in China: Bei Qin, StrÃ¶mberg, David and Wu Yanhui
The welfare effects of social media: Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer and Matthew Gentzkow

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