The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

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.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

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.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.