STUDY: How Facebook, Twitter Factored Into Discussions on Government Surveillance

What role did social networks such as Facebook and Twitter play in discussions about Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency’s Prism initiative and government surveillance? Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project sought to find out by conducting a survey of 1,801 adults.

PewSurveillanceChart650What role did social networks such as Facebook and Twitter play in discussions about Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency’s Prism initiative and government surveillance? Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project sought to find out by conducting a survey of 1,801 adults.

Pew introduced the study as follows:

A major insight into human behavior from pre-Internet-era studies of communication is the tendency of people not to speak up about policy issues in public — or among their family, friends and work colleagues — when they believe their own point of view is not widely shared.

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