Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This … undertaking allows us to highlight the key empirical challenges in the field of Internet and social media economics while …

We survey the economics literature on media as it applies to the Internet. The Internet is an important driver behind … media convergence and connects information and communication technologies. While new Internet media share some properties …-tuned tailoring and targeting of ads based on individual user characteristics are common features on many Internet media and social …

During the last decade the internet has been the fastest growing segment in advertising. Exploiting Nielsen data, we … comparatively more than larger firms. Radio and the internet display an opposite pattern, whereas are larger firms increasing their … function for different subsets of the sample. We find that media segments are (loose) substitutes, in that the estimated cross …

have on legislators' policy positions. We exploit the shock in public attention induced by the Internet service blackout of … Internet. Using a new dataset of U.S. congressmen's public statements, we find a strong statistical relationship between …

on the Internet. Consumer-Generated Media (CGM) describes a variety of new sources of online information that are created …

situation generated by crisis and globalization. The economic crisis has created a huge opportunity to the mass-media system: it … brings the required information to citizens from different nations. Taking this into account, mass-media has played and still …

Technology and consumer behavior are changing supply and demand for mass media. Digitization has increased consumer … control over media content and advertising, with implications for advertising avoidance, advertising targeting and … personalization, competition among media platforms, and media market outcomes. In addition, consumers increasingly use a “second …

Blogs differ from other media in that authors are usually not remunerated and inscribe themselves in communities of …

Proliferation of content on the internet offers consumers access to more sources than had been possible with … traditional media. Disaggregated content also increases the relevance of targeting for advertisers. But at the same time, search … costs increase the role of intermediaries in media consumption in ways that are poorly understood. This paper studies the …