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 …

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …

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 …