Episode 101: Xinming Du on social media content and offline violence

Originally published: December 19, 2023 Xinming Du talks about how aggressive posts on social media affect offline violence. “Symptom or Culprit? Social Media, Air Pollution, and Violence” (https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueag024)by Xinming Du. Other research we discuss in this episode: “Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks” (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24889...) by Adam Kramer, Jamie Guillory, and Jeffrey Hancock. “Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/48584432) by Ruben Enikolopov, Alexey Makarin, and Maria Petrova. “Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime” (https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article...) by Karsten Muller and Carlo Schwarz. Episode 35 of Probable Causation: (https://www.probablecausation.com/pod...) Erich Muehlegger “Toxic Content and User Engagement on Social Media: Evidence from a Field Experiment” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c... George Beknazar-Yuzbashev, Rafael Jiménez Durán, Jesse McCrosky, and Mateusz Stalinski. “Social Media and Mental Health” (https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10...) by Luca Braghieri, Ro’ee Levy, and Alexey Makarin. Want more? Book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Newsletter: https://probablecausation.substack.com Website: https://www.probablecausation.com Follow us on social media! X: @jenniferdoleac, @ProbCausation IG: @jenniferdoleac, @probablecausation