Unspeaking on Facebook? Testing network effects on self-censorship of political expressions in social network sites

2014/07/22 by K. Hazel Kwon, Shin-Il Moon, Michael A. Stefanone · 98 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Biology and political orientation #Computer science #Conformity #Context (archaeology) #Epistemology #Isolation (microbiology) #Law #Normative #Normative social influence #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Political science #Politics #Proposition #Psychology #Social Media and Politics #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social influence #Social media #Social network (sociolinguistics) #Social psychology #World Wide Web

paper · doi:10.1007/s11135-014-0078-8

published in Quality & Quantity 49(4), 1417-1435 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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