Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.