Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …

the availability of broadband for high-speed Internet. We try to further disentangle the direct effect of SNS use on well …

broadband for high-speed Internet, which relates to technological characteristics of the pre- existing voice telecommunication … several interpretations of the results in light of the specific features of Internet-mediated social interaction. …

telecommunication infrastructures that exogenously determined the availability of broadband for high-speed Internet. We find that …

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical … infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual speed of an Internet connection, in fact, rapidly decays with the distance … Internet caused a significant decline in forms of offline interaction and civic engagement. Overall, our results suggest that …

technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access … social capital from 1997 to 2017, we show that access to fast Internet caused a significant decline in civic and political …