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The IRA, social media and political polarization in the United States, 2012-2018
Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) launched an extended attack on the United States by using computational propaganda to misinform and polarize US voters. This report provides the first major analysis of this attack based on data provided by social media firms to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
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Tangible outcomes of internet use: from digital skills to tangible outcomes project report
In the past decade, digital divide discussions have moved from discussions of use or non-use, to a more nuanced recognition of different types and levels of access, motivation, skills and Internet use in a discourse that centres around digital inclusion and inequality. However, there remain challenges in measurement and conceptualisation. In 2014, the authors of...
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On the periphery? Understanding low and discontinued internet use amongst young people in Britain
In the UK, the Internet has become an important feature of the lives of the majority of young people. However, there is a significant minority of young people who are not able to navigate or connect properly with the online world. They are, in other words, outside the digital mainstream. Evidence for this group has...
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To be a network society: a cross-national perspective on the internet in Britain
After years of collective indecision, Britain shifted to become a full participant in an increasingly networked world. This paper compares Britain with other European nations and the wider world in its adoption and use of the internet. After years of collective indecision, Britain shifted to become a full participant in an increasingly networked world; supporting...
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Digital inclusion: an analysis of social disadvantage and the information society
Technological forms of exclusion are a reality for significant segments of the UK population and can reinforce and deepen existing disadvantages, according to this report. It offers policy recommendations and describes ways in which digital inclusion research can be improved. This study was commissioned to investigate the extent to which social exclusion and digital exclusion...