A note on internet use and the 2016 U.S. presidential election outcome

We use data from the American National Election Studies from 1996 to 2016 to study the role of the internet in the 2016 U.S. presidential election outcome. We compare trends in the Republican share of the vote between likely and unlikely internet users, and between actual internet users and non-user...

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Autores principales: Boxell, Levi, Gentzkow, Matthew, Shapiro, Jesse M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6051565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30020953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199571
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description We use data from the American National Election Studies from 1996 to 2016 to study the role of the internet in the 2016 U.S. presidential election outcome. We compare trends in the Republican share of the vote between likely and unlikely internet users, and between actual internet users and non-users. Relative to prior years, the Republican share of the vote in 2016 was as high or higher among the groups least active online.
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spelling pubmed-60515652018-07-27 A note on internet use and the 2016 U.S. presidential election outcome Boxell, Levi Gentzkow, Matthew Shapiro, Jesse M. PLoS One Research Article We use data from the American National Election Studies from 1996 to 2016 to study the role of the internet in the 2016 U.S. presidential election outcome. We compare trends in the Republican share of the vote between likely and unlikely internet users, and between actual internet users and non-users. Relative to prior years, the Republican share of the vote in 2016 was as high or higher among the groups least active online. Public Library of Science 2018-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6051565/ /pubmed/30020953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199571 Text en © 2018 Boxell et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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