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[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Artificial Intelligence]]
[[Category:Democracy]]
[[Category:Civic Engagement]]
[[Category:Social Media]]
[[Category:Digital Society]]
[[Category:Political Participation]]
[[Category:Media Studies]]

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== Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Civic Engagement ==

 This collection explores the evolving relationship between digital technology and democratic society. Drawing from academic research, think tanks, policy organizations, and major research institutions, the articles examine how artificial intelligence, social media, civic technology, journalism, digital platforms, and online communities are reshaping political participation, public trust, civic education, and democratic governance. Collectively, they show that technology can expand participation while simultaneously creating new challenges involving misinformation, polarization, surveillance, declining local journalism, and unequal access to civic opportunities.

=== Recent Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Democracy ===

 Recent studies focus on the growing role of artificial intelligence and digital platforms in democratic life. Researchers examine AI governance, civic technology, online political participation, algorithmic recommendation systems, and digital deliberation. Many conclude that technology alone cannot strengthen democracy unless institutions provide meaningful opportunities for participation, transparency, accountability, and public oversight.

=== Social Media, Political Participation, and Civic Technology ===

 Numerous studies investigate whether social media increases civic engagement or simply changes how citizens participate. Research consistently finds that digital platforms can improve political awareness, facilitate organizing, and encourage participation, particularly among younger generations. However, meaningful civic engagement remains dependent upon trust, institutions, education, and sustained offline involvement rather than online activity alone.

=== Community, Social Capital, and Democratic Participation ===

 Many publications revisit the importance of social capital, neighborhood organizations, voluntary associations, and face-to-face relationships. While digital communication often supplements existing relationships, researchers caution that technology cannot replace the trust, cooperation, and long-term commitment developed through community institutions. Strong civic networks remain essential for healthy democratic societies.

=== Journalism, Information, and the Digital Public Sphere ===

 Several articles examine the decline of local journalism, the rise of digital media, and the changing information environment. The research demonstrates that local newspapers, independent journalism, and reliable civic information remain critical for democratic accountability. As traditional news organizations disappear, communities often experience reduced civic participation, increased political polarization, and lower public trust.

=== Algorithms, Attention, and Political Polarization ===

 A significant body of literature examines recommendation algorithms, surveillance capitalism, attention-based business models, echo chambers, misinformation, and platform governance. Researchers argue that engagement-driven systems frequently reward sensational content, increase ideological polarization, and weaken the shared information necessary for constructive democratic dialogue.

=== Digital Inequality, Youth, and Civic Education ===

 The collection highlights persistent inequalities in digital access, digital literacy, and civic education. Young people increasingly participate through online communities, digital campaigns, and social media, but successful civic participation depends upon education, critical thinking, institutional support, and opportunities to connect digital engagement with real-world democratic processes.

=== Contemporary Challenges for Democracy ===

 Recent research explores emerging issues including AI governance, digital public infrastructure, online deliberation, civic technology, participatory budgeting, platform regulation, and democratic innovation. While technology offers new opportunities for citizen engagement, scholars emphasize that democratic renewal ultimately depends on responsive institutions, transparent governance, inclusive participation, and public trust rather than technological innovation alone.

=== Conclusion ===

 Collectively, these sources demonstrate that digital technology is neither inherently beneficial nor inherently harmful to democracy. Artificial intelligence, social media, civic technology, and digital communication can strengthen democratic participation when combined with effective institutions, civic education, trustworthy journalism, and strong community relationships. Without these foundations, however, technological advances may amplify polarization, misinformation, unequal participation, and declining public trust. The research consistently concludes that the future of democracy depends as much on social institutions and civic culture as on technological innovation itself.

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=== Recent Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Democracy ===

===== Data & Society Launches AI Civics, a Public Education Program to Build Democratic Power Over Technology =====
[https://datasociety.net/news-events/data-society-launches-ai-civics-a-public-education-program-to-build-democratic-power-over-technology/ | Data & Society | Data & Society | May 12, 2026]

===== What Gen Z Protests Reveal About Kenya’s Democracy =====
[https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-gen-z-protests-reveal-about-kenyas-democracy/ | Winnie Mitullah, Oscar M. Otele, and Karuti Kanyinga | Brookings Institution | April 7, 2026]

===== Super Scrollers Sour on Democracy =====
[https://www.axios.com/2026/03/31/democracy-social-media-heavy-users | Erica Pandey | Axios | March 31, 2026]

===== Harnessing Social Media for Increased Political Engagement =====
[https://www.brookings.edu/articles/harnessing-social-media-for-increased-political-engagement/ | Belinda Archibong | Brookings Institution | March 3, 2026]

===== 42% of Social Media Users Say the Sites Are Important for Political and Social Involvement =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/16/42-of-social-media-users-say-the-sites-are-important-for-them-getting-involved-with-political-social-issues/ | Colleen McClain | Pew Research Center | September 16, 2025]

===== The Mobilization Effect of Social Media Use =====
[https://www.e-jps.org/archive/view_article?pid=jps-40-1-65 | Kyuhong Kim | Journal of Policy Studies | 2025]

===== Recommendation Algorithms on Social Media: Unseen Drivers of Political Opinion =====
[https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01978 | Waseq Billah | arXiv | June 25, 2025]

===== AI and Social Media: A Political Economy Perspective =====
[https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2025-05/AI%20and%20Social%20Media%20-%20A%20Political%20Economy%20Perspective.pdf | Daron Acemoglu and Asuman Ozdaglar | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | May 2025]

===== Reimagining Democracy: The Role of Technology and Deliberation =====
[https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/publication/reimagining-democracy-role-technology-and-deliberation | Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law | Stanford University | April 29, 2025]

===== Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Countries =====
[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2024.2325423 | Michael Chan and Coauthors | Political Communication | 2024]

===== How Americans Navigate Politics on TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/06/12/how-americans-navigate-politics-on-tiktok-x-facebook-and-instagram/ | Colleen McClain, Monica Anderson, and Risa Gelles-Watnick | Pew Research Center | June 12, 2024]

===== Democracy, Civic Engagement and Youth Participation in the Digital Age =====
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147176723001529 | Muhammad Saud and Coauthors | International Journal of Intercultural Relations | 2023]

===== Beyond Transactional Democracy: A Study of Civic Tech in Canada =====
[https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06651 | Curtis W. McCord and Christoph Becker | arXiv | February 13, 2023]

===== Social Media Seen as Mostly Good for Democracy Across Many Nations, but U.S. Is a Major Outlier =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/12/06/social-media-seen-as-mostly-good-for-democracy-across-many-nations-but-u-s-is-a-major-outlier/ | Richard Wike and Coauthors | Pew Research Center | December 6, 2022]

===== Views of Social Media and Its Impacts on Society =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/12/06/views-of-social-media-and-its-impacts-on-society-in-advanced-economies-2022/ | Laura Silver and Coauthors | Pew Research Center | December 6, 2022]

===== A Review of Research on Civic Technology =====
[https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11461 | Weiyu Zhang, Gionnieve Lim, Simon Perrault, and Chuyao Wang | arXiv | April 25, 2022]

===== Media and Democracy: Unpacking America’s Complex Views on the Digital Public Square =====
[https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/americans-attitudes-on-internet-regulations-go-beyond-party-lines/ | Knight Foundation and Gallup | Knight Foundation | March 9, 2022]

===== Social Networking and Ethics =====
[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-social-networking/ | Shannon Vallor | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | August 30, 2021]

===== Effects of Young Adults’ Smartphone Use for Social Media on Civic Engagement =====
[https://www.emerald.com/oir/article/46/3/616/318374/Effects-of-young-adults-smartphone-use-for-social | Hyojung Park and Coauthors | Online Information Review | August 25, 2021]

===== Social Media Capital and Civic Engagement =====
[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8249427/ | Yu-Hao Lee and Coauthors | PLOS ONE | July 1, 2021]

=== Social Media, Polarization, and Public Trust ===

===== Social Media and Political Contributions =====
[https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02924 | Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen, and Pinar Yildirim | arXiv | November 5, 2020]

===== 64% of Americans Say Social Media Have a Mostly Negative Effect on the Country =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/15/64-of-americans-say-social-media-have-a-mostly-negative-effect-on-the-way-things-are-going-in-the-u-s-today/ | Brooke Auxier | Pew Research Center | October 15, 2020]

===== Power Dynamics Play a Key Role in Problems and Innovation =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/06/30/power-dynamics-play-a-key-role-in-problems-and-innovation/ | Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie | Pew Research Center | June 30, 2020]

===== Social Media Effects: Hijacking Democracy and Civility in Civic Engagement =====
[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7343248/ | Bolanle Olaniran and Indi Williams | Platform: A Journal of Management and Humanities | June 2020]

===== The Welfare Effects of Social Media =====
[https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190658 | Hunt Allcott, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, and Matthew Gentzkow | American Economic Review | March 2020]

===== Many Tech Experts Say Digital Disruption Will Hurt Democracy =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/21/many-tech-experts-say-digital-disruption-will-hurt-democracy/ | Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie | Pew Research Center | February 21, 2020]

===== Concerns About Democracy in the Digital Age =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/21/concerns-about-democracy-in-the-digital-age/ | Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie | Pew Research Center | February 21, 2020]

===== Civic Engagement: Themes and Lessons =====
[https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/news/article/civic-engagement-themes-lessons | Stephen Goldsmith | Data-Smart City Solutions | December 18, 2019]

===== Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital? =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305119881694 | Keith N. Hampton and Barry Wellman | Social Media + Society | November 2019]

===== The State of Civic Engagement in America =====
[https://www.nationalconferenceon-citizenship.org/research/ | National Conference on Citizenship | National Conference on Citizenship | 2019]

===== Social Networking Sites’ Influence on Civic and Political Engagement =====
[https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/sociology_criminaljustice_etds/18/ | Crystal L. Bush | Old Dominion University | 2018]

===== Public Attitudes Toward Political Engagement on Social Media =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/07/11/public-attitudes-toward-political-engagement-on-social-media/ | Monica Anderson, Skye Toor, Lee Rainie, and Aaron Smith | Pew Research Center | July 11, 2018]

===== Activism in the Social Media Age =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/07/11/activism-in-the-social-media-age/ | Monica Anderson, Skye Toor, Lee Rainie, and Aaron Smith | Pew Research Center | July 11, 2018]

===== The Political Environment on Social Media =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/10/25/the-political-environment-on-social-media/ | Maeve Duggan and Aaron Smith | Pew Research Center | October 25, 2016]

===== The Rise of Affective Polarization and Digital Media =====
[https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/41327/chapter/352327075 | Pablo Barberá | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics | 2016]

===== Social Media and the Spiral of Silence =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/08/26/social-media-and-the-spiral-of-silence/ | Keith N. Hampton, Lee Rainie, Weixu Lu, Maria Dwyer, Inyoung Shin, and Kristen Purcell | Pew Research Center | August 26, 2014]

===== Political Polarization in the American Public =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/ | Pew Research Center | Pew Research Center | June 12, 2014]

===== The Structure of Online Activism =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764213479377 | W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg | American Behavioral Scientist | June 2013]

===== Social Media, Participation, and the 2012 Presidential Election =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2012/10/19/social-media-and-political-engagement/ | Aaron Smith | Pew Research Center | October 19, 2012]

===== A 61-Million-Person Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilization =====
[https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11421 | Robert M. Bond and Coauthors | Nature | September 13, 2012]

===== The Political Power of Social Media =====
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25800379 | Clay Shirky | Foreign Affairs | January–February 2011]

=== Online Activism, Civic Technology, and Participation ===

===== Unpacking the Relationship Between Mobile Phone Usage and Civic Engagement =====
[https://www.ojcmt.net/article/unpacking-the-relationship-between-mobile-phone-usage-patterns-network-size-and-civic-engagement | Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Coauthors | Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies | April 26, 2017]

===== How Does Social Media Use Influence Political Participation and Civic Engagement? =====
[https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/social-media-influence-politics-participation-engagement-meta-analysis/ | John Wihbey | The Journalist’s Resource | October 18, 2015]

===== A Review of Mobile Phones, Smartphones, and Civic Engagement =====
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0740624X15000921 | Alex Ingrams | Government Information Quarterly | October 2015]

===== Viral Engagement: Fast, Cheap, and Broad, but Good for Democracy? =====
[https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/viral-engagement-fast-cheap-and-broad-good-democracy | Archon Fung and Jennifer Shkabatur | Harvard Kennedy School | 2015]

===== Social Media and Democracy: Innovations in Participatory Politics =====
[https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781138812932 | Brian D. Loader and Dan Mercea, Editors | Routledge | April 27, 2015]

===== Social Media Use and Participation: A Meta-Analysis of Current Research =====
[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1008542 | Shelley Boulianne | Information, Communication & Society | January 29, 2015]

===== Digital Activism and Organizing =====
[https://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/citizen-action/digital-activism-organizing-theory-research-review-reading-list/ | John Wihbey | The Journalist’s Resource | December 2, 2014]

===== Social Media, Social Capital, and the Civic Participation of College Students =====
[https://www.ejournalofpublicaffairs.org/3-1-2-social-media-social-capital-and-the-civic-participation-of-college-students/ | Michael Stout | eJournal of Public Affairs | 2014]

===== The Logic of Connective Action =====
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/logic-of-connective-action/6B6E85D7A84A3551A38F8A4034A6C71C | W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg | Cambridge University Press | 2013]

===== Civic Engagement in the Digital Age =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2013/04/25/civic-engagement-in-the-digital-age-2/ | Aaron Smith | Pew Research Center | April 25, 2013]

===== The Personalization of Politics =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716212451428 | W. Lance Bennett | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | November 2012]

===== Social Media Use for News and Individuals’ Social Capital =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0093650210384984 | Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Nakwon Jung, and Sebastián Valenzuela | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | April 2012]

===== How Social Networking Can Reinvigorate American Democracy and Civic Participation =====
[https://www.brookings.edu/events/how-social-networking-can-reinvigorate-american-democracy-and-civic-participation/ | Darrell M. West and Panelists | Brookings Institution | June 28, 2011]

===== Collective Action in the Digital Age =====
[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2010.495413 | Bruce Bimber, Andrew J. Flanagin, and Cynthia Stohl | Information, Communication & Society | December 2010]

===== The Internet and Civic Engagement =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2009/09/01/the-internet-and-civic-engagement/ | Aaron Smith, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry Brady | Pew Research Center | September 1, 2009]

===== The Current State of Civic Engagement in America =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2009/09/01/the-current-state-of-civic-engagement-in-america/ | Pew Research Center | Pew Research Center | September 1, 2009]

===== The Demographics of Online and Offline Political Participation =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2009/09/01/the-demographics-of-online-and-offline-political-participation/ | Pew Research Center | Pew Research Center | September 1, 2009]

===== Internet, Politics, and Participation =====
[https://academic.oup.com/book/11810 | Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Ramona S. McNeal | Oxford University Press | 2008]

===== Here Comes Everybody =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/166353/here-comes-everybody-by-clay-shirky/ | Clay Shirky | Penguin Press | February 28, 2008]

===== The Internet and Political Transformation =====
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/internet-and-four-dimensions-of-citizenship/ | Bruce Bimber | Perspectives on Politics | March 2003]

=== Community, Social Capital, and the Displacement of Civic Life ===

===== Reclaiming Conversation =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313732/reclaiming-conversation-by-sherry-turkle/ | Sherry Turkle | Penguin Press | October 6, 2015]

===== Personal Connections in the Digital Age =====
[https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Personal+Connections+in+the+Digital+Age%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9780745670348 | Nancy K. Baym | Polity | 2015]

===== Networked Individualism =====
[https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/2298/NetworkedThe-New-Social-Operating-System | Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman | MIT Press | April 27, 2012]

===== Alone Together =====
[https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/sherry-turkle/alone-together/9780465093656/ | Sherry Turkle | Basic Books | January 11, 2011]

===== Connecting and Disconnecting With Civic Life =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2010/11/23/the-social-side-of-the-internet/ | Aaron Smith | Pew Research Center | November 23, 2010]

===== Still Bowling Alone? The Post-9/11 Split =====
[https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/still-bowling-alone-the-post-9-11-split/ | Thomas H. Sander and Robert D. Putnam | Journal of Democracy | January 2010]

===== Social Isolation and New Technology =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2009/11/04/social-isolation-and-new-technology/ | Keith N. Hampton, Lauren Sessions, Eun Ja Her, and Lee Rainie | Pew Research Center | November 4, 2009]

===== The Internet and Democratic Citizenship =====
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/internet-and-democratic-citizenship/ | Stephen Coleman and Jay G. Blumler | Cambridge University Press | March 2009]

===== The Benefits of Facebook “Friends” =====
[https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/12/4/1143/4582961 | Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | July 2007]

===== The Strength of Internet Ties =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2006/01/25/the-strength-of-internet-ties/ | Jeffrey Boase, John B. Horrigan, Barry Wellman, and Lee Rainie | Pew Research Center | January 25, 2006]

===== Community in the Digital Age =====
[https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742525160/Community-in-the-Digital-Age-Philosophy-and-Practice | Andrew Feenberg and Darin Barney, Editors | Rowman & Littlefield | 2004]

===== Better Together =====
[https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Better-Together/Robert-D-Putnam/9780743235471 | Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein | Simon & Schuster | September 10, 2003]

===== Social Consequences of Internet Use =====
[https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262582660/the-social-consequences-of-internet-use/ | James E. Katz and Ronald E. Rice | MIT Press | December 2002]

===== The Internet and Social Participation =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00027640121957277 | Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring | American Behavioral Scientist | November 2002]

===== Internet Use and Declining Social Involvement =====
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2678624 | Norman H. Nie and D. Sunshine Hillygus | IT & Society | 2002]

===== Internet Communication and Social Capital =====
[https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/6/1/JCMC611/4584263 | Dhavan V. Shah, Nojin Kwak, and R. Lance Holbert | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | September 2001]

===== Social Capital: Measurement and Consequences =====
[https://www.oecd.org/innovation/research/1825848.pdf | Robert D. Putnam | OECD | 2001]

===== Bowling Alone =====
[https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bowling-Alone/Robert-D-Putnam/9781982130848 | Robert D. Putnam | Simon & Schuster | June 2000]

===== The Internet, Social Capital, Civic Engagement, and Sense of Community =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0894439304271532 | Anita Blanchard and Tom Horan | Social Science Computer Review | February 2000]

===== Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital =====
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/202017 | Robert D. Putnam | Journal of Democracy | January 1995]

=== Journalism, Information, and Democratic Participation ===

===== News Deserts and Ghost Newspapers =====
[https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state-of-local-news/ | Medill Local News Initiative | Northwestern University | 2024]

===== Local Journalism in Crisis =====
[https://www.brookings.edu/articles/local-journalism-in-crisis-why-america-must-revive-its-local-newsrooms/ | Clara Hendrickson | Brookings Institution | November 12, 2019]

===== Network Propaganda =====
[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/network-propaganda-9780190923631 | Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts | Oxford University Press | October 15, 2018]

===== The Decline of Local News and Its Effects on Polarization =====
[https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/68/5/1007/5093027 | Joshua P. Darr, Matthew P. Hitt, and Johanna L. Dunaway | Journal of Communication | October 2018]

===== Exposure to Opposing Views on Social Media Can Increase Political Polarization =====
[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1804840115 | Christopher A. Bail and Coauthors | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | September 11, 2018]

===== Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance =====
[https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP44.pdf | Pengjie Gao, Chang Lee, and Dermot Murphy | Brookings Papers on Economic Activity | September 2018]

===== The Expanding News Desert =====
[https://www.usnewsdeserts.com/reports/expanding-news-desert/ | Penelope Muse Abernathy | University of North Carolina | 2018]

===== The Spread of True and False News Online =====
[https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap9559 | Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral | Science | March 9, 2018]

===== Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation =====
[https://hewlett.org/library/social-media-political-polarization-political-disinformation-review-scientific-literature/ | Joshua A. Tucker and Coauthors | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | March 2018]

===== Local Newspapers and Political Participation =====
[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/690934 | Shanto Iyengar and Jennifer A. McGrady | Journal of Politics | 2017]

===== The Attention Merchants =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/234876/the-attention-merchants-by-tim-wu/ | Tim Wu | Alfred A. Knopf | October 18, 2016]

===== Echo Chambers on Facebook =====
[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517441113 | Walter Quattrociocchi, Antonio Scala, and Cass R. Sunstein | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | January 19, 2016]

===== Political Consequences of the Endangered Local Watchdog =====
[https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/65/5/899/4082315 | Danny Hayes and Jennifer L. Lawless | Journal of Communication | October 2015]

===== Civic Engagement and Local News =====
[https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/local-news-citizen-engagement-internet-age-pew-report-2015/ | John Wihbey | The Journalist’s Resource | March 9, 2015]

===== The Information Needs of Communities =====
[https://transition.fcc.gov/osp/inc-report/The_Information_Needs_of_Communities.pdf | Steven Waldman | Federal Communications Commission | June 2011]

===== The Filter Bubble =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/309214/the-filter-bubble-by-eli-pariser/ | Eli Pariser | Penguin Press | May 12, 2011]

===== Informing Communities =====
[https://knightfoundation.org/reports/informing-communities-sustaining-democracy-digital/ | Knight Commission | Knight Foundation | October 2, 2009]

===== Republic.com 2.0 =====
[https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691133560/republiccom-20 | Cass R. Sunstein | Princeton University Press | August 5, 2007]

===== The Wealth of Networks =====
[https://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf | Yochai Benkler | Yale University Press | 2006]

===== The People Formerly Known as the Audience =====
[http://archive.pressthink.org/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr.html | Jay Rosen | PressThink | June 27, 2006]

=== Digital Inequality, Youth, and the Future of Civic Engagement ===

===== Digital Public Infrastructure for Democracy =====
[https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiative/reports/digital-public-infrastructure/ | New America | New America | 2022]

===== Educating for American Democracy =====
[https://www.educatingforamericandemocracy.org/the-roadmap/ | Educating for American Democracy Initiative | iCivics and Partner Institutions | March 2, 2021]

===== Designing Social Media for Democracy =====
[https://www.newpublic.org/ | New_ Public | New_ Public | 2020]

===== The Future of Democracy in the Digital Age =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/21/hopeful-themes-and-suggested-solutions/ | Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie | Pew Research Center | February 21, 2020]

===== The Civic Purpose of Social Media =====
[https://knightfoundation.org/features/civic-tech/ | Knight Foundation | Knight Foundation | 2019]

===== Can Democracy Survive the Internet? =====
[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-04-16/can-democracy-survive-internet | Nathaniel Persily | Foreign Affairs | April 16, 2018]

===== The Republic Is Still at Risk—and Civics Is Part of the Solution =====
[https://www.civxnow.org/sites/default/files/resources/SummitWhitePaper.pdf | Paul A. Carrese and Coauthors | Democracy at a Crossroads | September 2017]

===== Digital Skills and Political Participation =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444815621075 | Alexander van Deursen, Ellen Helsper, and Rebecca Eynon | New Media & Society | December 2015]

===== The Third-Level Digital Divide =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444814521368 | Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen and Jan A. G. M. van Dijk | New Media & Society | March 2015]

===== Youth and Participatory Politics =====
[https://ypp.dmlcentral.net/publications/ | Youth and Participatory Politics Research Network | MacArthur Foundation | 2014]

===== Digital Media and Youth Civic Engagement =====
[https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262524827/participatory-politics/ | Cathy J. Cohen and Joseph Kahne | MIT Press | 2012]

===== Teens, Social Media, and Political Participation =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2012/03/12/social-networking-sites-and-politics/ | Lee Rainie and Aaron Smith | Pew Research Center | March 12, 2012]

===== New Media and Youth Political Action =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716211420509 | W. Lance Bennett, Chris Wells, and Allison Rank | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | November 2011]

===== The Civic and Political Significance of Online Participatory Cultures Among Youth =====
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764210368088 | Joseph Kahne, Nam-Jin Lee, and Jessica Timpany Feezell | American Behavioral Scientist | May 2011]

===== The Digital Production Gap =====
[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2011.554873 | Eszter Hargittai and Gina Walejko | Information, Communication & Society | March 2011]

===== The Civic Potential of Video Games =====
[https://www.macfound.org/media/article_pdfs/CIVIC_POTENTIAL_VIDEO_GAMES.pdf | Joseph Kahne, Ellen Middaugh, and Chris Evans | MacArthur Foundation | September 2008]

===== Digital Inequality and Civic Engagement =====
[https://academic.oup.com/book/11810 | Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Ramona S. McNeal | Oxford University Press | 2008]

===== From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use =====
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/599123 | Eszter Hargittai | Social Inequality | 2008]

===== Digital Citizenship =====
[https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262633536/digital-citizenship/ | Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Ramona S. McNeal | MIT Press | October 12, 2007]

===== The Civic Mission of Schools =====
[https://www.carnegie.org/publications/the-civic-mission-of-schools/ | Carnegie Corporation and CIRCLE | Carnegie Corporation of New York | 2003]

=== Contemporary Digital Democracy and Civic Participation ===

===== How Americans Engage With News, Politics, Religion and Civic Life =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2026/07/16/how-americans-are-engaged-with-news-politics-religion-and-civic-life/ | Pew Research Center | Pew Research Center | July 16, 2026]

===== How Technology Can Help Save Democracy =====
[https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-technology-can-help-save-democracy-the-techtank-podcast/ | Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell M. West | Brookings Institution | June 15, 2026]

===== Digital Democracy Is Still Waiting to Be Invented =====
[https://www.noemamag.com/digital-democracy-is-still-waiting-to-be-invented/ | Nathan Gardels | Noema | 2025]

===== Youth, Social Media and Political Participation =====
[https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/youth-social-media-and-political-participation | International IDEA | International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance | 2025]

===== The Digitalisation of Democracy =====
[https://www.oecd.org/governance/innovative-citizen-participation/ | OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | 2024]

===== Digital Democracy: Mapping the Strategies of Digital Political Participation =====
[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2024)757629 | European Parliamentary Research Service | European Parliament | 2024]

===== The Civic Life of Social Media =====
[https://knightfoundation.org/reports/ | Knight Foundation | Knight Foundation | 2024]

===== Who Follows Politics on Social Media? =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2024/06/12/how-americans-navigate-politics-on-tiktok-x-facebook-and-instagram/ | Colleen McClain, Monica Anderson, and Risa Gelles-Watnick | Pew Research Center | June 12, 2024]

===== Digital Platforms and Democratic Participation =====
[https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/global-state-democracy-2023-new-checks-and-balances | International IDEA | International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance | 2023]

===== Technology-Facilitated Political Participation =====
[https://www.undp.org/publications/digital-strategy-2022-2025 | United Nations Development Programme | UNDP | 2023]

===== Digital Democracy: The Tools Transforming Political Engagement =====
[https://www.chathamhouse.org/topics/technology-and-democracy | Chatham House | Chatham House | 2023]

===== Participation in the Digital Age =====
[https://www.coe.int/en/web/participatory-democracy | Council of Europe | Council of Europe | 2023]

===== The Global State of Digital Civic Space =====
[https://monitor.civicus.org/ | CIVICUS | CIVICUS Monitor | 2023]

===== Digital Participation and the Future of Democracy =====
[https://www.unesco.org/en/digital-platforms | UNESCO | UNESCO | 2023]

===== Online Communities and Civic Engagement =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/05/17/teens-social-media-and-technology-2023/ | Pew Research Center | Pew Research Center | 2023]

===== Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere =====
[https://carnegieendowment.org/research/technology-and-international-affairs | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Carnegie Endowment | 2023]

===== Digital Civic Engagement by Young People =====
[https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research | Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement | Tufts University | 2023]

===== Americans’ Views of and Experiences With Activism on Social Media =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2023/06/29/americans-views-of-and-experiences-with-activism-on-social-media/ | Pew Research Center | Pew Research Center | June 29, 2023]

===== Social Media and Political Participation: Current Evidence =====
[https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051120-113816 | Shelley Boulianne | Annual Review of Political Science | 2022]

===== Digital Technology and Democratic Theory =====
[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo86443321.html | Lucy Bernholz, Hélène Landemore, and Rob Reich, Editors | University of Chicago Press | February 2021]

=== Algorithms, Attention, and Political Withdrawal ===

===== Breaking the Social Media Prism =====
[https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691208690/breaking-the-social-media-prism | Chris Bail | Princeton University Press | April 6, 2021]

===== The Hype Machine =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605308/the-hype-machine-by-sinan-aral/ | Sinan Aral | Currency | September 15, 2020]

===== The Age of Surveillance Capitalism =====
[https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ | Shoshana Zuboff | PublicAffairs | January 15, 2019]

===== LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media =====
[https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/LikeWar/9781328695741 | P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | October 2, 2018]

===== Custodians of the Internet =====
[https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300235029/custodians-of-the-internet/ | Tarleton Gillespie | Yale University Press | June 26, 2018]

===== Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now =====
[https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250196682/tenargumentsfordeletingyoursocialmediaaccountsrightnow | Jaron Lanier | Henry Holt | May 29, 2018]

===== Antisocial Media =====
[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/antisocial-media-9780190841164 | Siva Vaidhyanathan | Oxford University Press | May 15, 2018]

===== Algorithms of Oppression =====
[https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/ | Safiya Umoja Noble | New York University Press | February 20, 2018]

===== Automating Inequality =====
[https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317/automatinginequality | Virginia Eubanks | St. Martin’s Press | January 23, 2018]

===== World Without Mind =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318177/world-without-mind-by-franklin-foer/ | Franklin Foer | Penguin Press | September 12, 2017]

===== Twitter and Tear Gas =====
[https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215120/twitter-and-tear-gas/ | Zeynep Tufekci | Yale University Press | May 16, 2017]

===== Move Fast and Break Things =====
[https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jonathan-taplin/move-fast-and-break-things/9780316275774/ | Jonathan Taplin | Little, Brown and Company | April 18, 2017]

===== The People’s Platform =====
[https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062598/thepeoplesplatform | Astra Taylor | Metropolitan Books | April 7, 2015]

===== To Save Everything, Click Here =====
[https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/evgeny-morozov/to-save-everything-click-here/9781610391382/ | Evgeny Morozov | PublicAffairs | March 5, 2013]

===== The Googlization of Everything =====
[https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520272897/the-googlization-of-everything | Siva Vaidhyanathan | University of California Press | March 16, 2011]

===== The Net Delusion =====
[https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/evgeny-morozov/the-net-delusion/9781610391061/ | Evgeny Morozov | PublicAffairs | January 4, 2011]

===== The Master Switch =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/192512/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/ | Tim Wu | Alfred A. Knopf | November 2, 2010]

===== Program or Be Programmed =====
[https://rushkoff.com/books/program-or-be-programmed/ | Douglas Rushkoff | OR Books | October 1, 2010]

===== The Shallows =====
[https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Shallows/ | Nicholas Carr | W. W. Norton | June 7, 2010]

===== You Are Not a Gadget =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/97467/you-are-not-a-gadget-by-jaron-lanier/ | Jaron Lanier | Alfred A. Knopf | January 12, 2010]

=== Social Media, Elections, and Collective Action ===

===== Networked Protest and Digital Repression =====
[https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2019/12/the-global-expansion-of-ai-surveillance | Steven Feldstein | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | September 17, 2019]

===== This Is Not Propaganda =====
[https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/peter-pomerantsev/this-is-not-propaganda/9781541762121/ | Peter Pomerantsev | PublicAffairs | August 6, 2019]

===== Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics =====
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/digital-democracy-analogue-politics/ | Nanjala Nyabola | Zed Books | November 15, 2018]

===== Computational Propaganda =====
[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/computational-propaganda-9780190931407 | Samuel C. Woolley and Philip N. Howard, Editors | Oxford University Press | October 17, 2018]

===== The Road to Unfreedom =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576474/the-road-to-unfreedom-by-timothy-snyder/ | Timothy Snyder | Tim Duggan Books | April 3, 2018]

===== Democracy’s Fourth Wave? =====
[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/democracys-fourth-wave-9780199936961 | Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain | Oxford University Press | March 2013]

===== The Digital Disconnect =====
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/digital-disconnect/ | Robert W. McChesney | The New Press | March 5, 2013]

===== Blogs and Bullets II =====
[https://www.usip.org/publications/2012/07/blogs-and-bullets-ii-new-media-and-conflict-after-arab-spring | Sean Aday and Coauthors | United States Institute of Peace | July 10, 2012]

===== The MoveOn Effect =====
[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-moveon-effect-9780199898367 | David Karpf | Oxford University Press | May 18, 2012]

===== Opening Closed Regimes =====
[https://www.brookings.edu/articles/opening-closed-regimes-what-was-the-role-of-social-media-during-the-arab-spring/ | Philip N. Howard | Brookings Institution | 2011]

===== The Revolutions Were Tweeted =====
[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2011-08-16/revolution-will-be-tweeted | Blake Hounshell | Foreign Affairs | 2011]

===== Social Media and the Arab Spring =====
[https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-upheavals-in-egypt-and-tunisia-the-role-of-digital-media/ | Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain | Journal of Democracy | July 2011]

===== Networked Authoritarianism =====
[https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/liberation-technology-chinas-networked-authoritarianism/ | Rebecca MacKinnon | Journal of Democracy | April 2011]

===== Digitally Enabled Social Change =====
[https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262015102/digitally-enabled-social-change/ | Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport | MIT Press | March 4, 2011]

===== The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change =====
[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2010-12-20/political-power-social-media | Clay Shirky | Foreign Affairs | December 20, 2010]

===== Liberation Technology =====
[https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/liberation-technology/ | Larry Diamond | Journal of Democracy | July 2010]

===== The Myth of Digital Democracy =====
[https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691142859/the-myth-of-digital-democracy | Matthew Hindman | Princeton University Press | November 2, 2008]

===== Democracy and the Internet =====
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/20049913 | Cass R. Sunstein | Boston Review | 2001]

===== Electronic Democracy =====
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1601132 | Lawrence K. Grossman | Viking | 1995]

=== Civic Technology and Government Responsiveness ===

===== Democracy and Civic Life: What Is the Long Game for Philanthropy? =====
[https://knightfoundation.org/articles/research/democracy-and-civic-life-what-is-the-long-game-for-philanthropy/ | Knight Foundation | Knight Foundation | November 9, 2020]

===== Civic Tech: New Solutions for Civic Problems =====
[https://www.oecd.org/gov/open-government/ | OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | 2020]

===== Digital Government Review =====
[https://www.oecd.org/governance/digital-government/ | OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | 2020]

===== Participatory Budgeting and Civic Technology =====
[https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/ | Participatory Budgeting Project | Participatory Budgeting Project | 2020]

===== Decidim: A Platform for Participatory Democracy =====
[https://decidim.org/ | Decidim Association | Decidim | 2019]

===== CONSUL Democracy =====
[https://consuldemocracy.org/ | CONSUL Democracy Foundation | CONSUL Democracy | 2019]

===== How Taiwan’s Civic Hackers Helped Find a New Way to Run the Country =====
[https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/21/240284/how-taiwans-civic-hackers-helped-find-a-new-way-to-run-the-country/ | Chris Horton | MIT Technology Review | August 21, 2018]

===== vTaiwan: Public Participation Through Digital Deliberation =====
[https://info.vtaiwan.tw/ | vTaiwan | Government and Civic Technology Community | 2018]

===== Scaling Civic Tech =====
[https://legacy.knightfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Scaling_Civic_Tech_final.pdf | Knight Foundation | Knight Foundation | November 2, 2017]

===== Civic Tech in the Global South =====
[https://www.makingallvoicescount.org/publication/civic-tech-global-south-assessing-technology-transparency-accountability/ | Making All Voices Count | Institute of Development Studies | 2017]

===== The Promise and Problems of Civic Technology =====
[https://www.mysociety.org/research/ | mySociety | mySociety Research | 2016]

===== Civic Technology: Open Government and Citizen Volunteers =====
[https://www.codeforamerica.org/ | Code for America | Code for America | 2016]

===== The Rise of Civic Tech =====
[https://knightfoundation.org/features/civictech/ | Knight Foundation | Knight Foundation | 2015]

===== Open Government Partnership and Digital Participation =====
[https://www.opengovpartnership.org/ | Open Government Partnership | Open Government Partnership | 2015]

===== Innovation Is Not Just Apps =====
[https://www.brookings.edu/articles/innovation-is-not-just-apps/ | Stephen Goldsmith | Brookings Institution | November 4, 2014]

===== FixMyStreet and Digital Civic Reporting =====
[https://www.fixmystreet.com/ | mySociety | FixMyStreet | 2014]

===== Open Data and Civic Participation =====
[https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digitaldevelopment | World Bank | World Bank | 2014]

===== The Data-Smart City =====
[https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/ | Harvard Kennedy School | Data-Smart City Solutions | 2014]

===== Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice =====
[https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/open-government/9781449381936/ | Daniel Lathrop and Laurel Ruma, Editors | O’Reilly Media | February 2010]

===== Wiki Government =====
[https://www.brookings.edu/books/wiki-government/ | Beth Simone Noveck | Brookings Institution Press | June 2009]

===== Government 2.0 =====
[https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/government-20 | David Osimo | European Commission | 2008]

=== Community Institutions, Local Life, and Digital Displacement ===

===== Palaces for the People =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557044/palaces-for-the-people-by-eric-klinenberg/ | Eric Klinenberg | Crown | September 11, 2018]

===== Our Kids =====
[https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Our-Kids/Robert-D-Putnam/9781476769905 | Robert D. Putnam | Simon & Schuster | March 10, 2015]

===== The Village Effect =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/225082/the-village-effect-by-susan-pinker/ | Susan Pinker | Spiegel & Grau | August 26, 2014]

===== The Vanishing Neighbor =====
[https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Vanishing-Neighbor/ | Marc J. Dunkelman | W. W. Norton | August 17, 2014]

===== Coming Apart =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/118457/coming-apart-by-charles-murray/ | Charles Murray | Crown Forum | January 31, 2012]

===== The Big Sort =====
[https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/The-Big-Sort/9780547237725 | Bill Bishop | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | May 7, 2008]

===== The Good Society =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/10007/the-good-society-by-robert-n-bellah/ | Robert Bellah and Coauthors | Alfred A. Knopf | 1991]

===== The Great Good Place =====
[https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ray-oldenburg/the-great-good-place/9781569246818/ | Ray Oldenburg | Marlowe & Company | 1989]

===== Habits of the Heart =====
[https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520254190/habits-of-the-heart | Robert Bellah and Coauthors | University of California Press | 1985]

===== Democracy in America =====
[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/815 | Alexis de Tocqueville | Project Gutenberg | 1835]

=== Media Fragmentation and Declining Civic Knowledge ===

===== News Use Across Social Media Platforms =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/06/12/how-americans-get-news-on-tiktok-x-facebook-and-instagram/ | Pew Research Center | Pew Research Center | June 12, 2024]

===== Local News Consumption Is Declining =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/05/07/americans-changing-relationship-with-local-news/ | Pew Research Center | Pew Research Center | May 7, 2024]

===== The State of Local News =====
[https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state-of-local-news/ | Medill Local News Initiative | Northwestern University | 2023]

===== Avoiding the News =====
[https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2023 | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism | University of Oxford | 2023]

===== Digital News Report =====
[https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2022 | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism | University of Oxford | June 15, 2022]

===== News Consumption Across Social Media =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/09/20/news-consumption-across-social-media-in-2021/ | Mason Walker and Katerina Eva Matsa | Pew Research Center | September 20, 2021]

===== Americans Who Mainly Get Their News on Social Media Are Less Engaged =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/07/30/americans-who-mainly-get-their-news-on-social-media-are-less-engaged-less-knowledgeable/ | Amy Mitchell and Coauthors | Pew Research Center | July 30, 2020]

===== News Deserts and Democracy =====
[https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/the-relationship-between-local-news-and-civic-engagement.php | Tow Center for Digital Journalism | Columbia Journalism Review | 2019]

===== Local News Is Dying, and Americans Have No Idea =====
[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/local-news-is-dying-and-americans-have-no-idea/585772/ | Margaret Sullivan | The Atlantic | March 26, 2019]

===== Political Polarization and Media Habits =====
[https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2014/10/21/political-polarization-media-habits/ | Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Jocelyn Kiley, and Katerina Eva Matsa | Pew Research Center | October 21, 2014]

===== The Civic Effects of News Consumption =====
[https://www.journalism.org/2011/09/26/news-and-civic-knowledge/ | Pew Research Center | Pew Research Center | September 26, 2011]

===== The Daily Me =====
[https://www.nicholasnegroponte.com/ | Nicholas Negroponte | MIT Media Laboratory | 1995]

===== Amusing Ourselves to Death =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297276/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman/ | Neil Postman | Penguin Books | 1985]

===== The Disappearance of Childhood =====
[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297274/the-disappearance-of-childhood-by-neil-postman/ | Neil Postman | Vintage | 1982]

===== Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television =====
[https://www.harpercollins.com/products/four-arguments-for-the-elimination-of-television-jerry-mander | Jerry Mander | William Morrow | 1978]