Surveying online practices of American youth and their civic and political engagement, this working paper finds that most youth are not consistently exposed to either echo chambers or divergent perspectives. Some see the Internet as a means of exposure to divergent perspectives, while others believe that it is likely to foster echo chambers. This paper...

The emergence of a mass-digitized book corpus has the potential to transform the academic library enterprise, enabling an optimization of legacy print collections that will substantially increase the efficiency of library operations and facilitate a redirection of library resources in support of a renovated library service portfolio. Executive Summary The Cloud Library project was jointly...

The performance of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) regarding transparency is not currently meeting its potential. In August 2010, selected faculty and researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet; Society Harvard University (referred to as the “Berkman team”) initiated an independent, exploratory study analysing ICANN’s decision-making processes and communications with its...

This report finds that use of mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant, has increased in recent years, particularly in the UK, Europe and Australia. The report also finds that: • One-fifth (21%) of the 2010 national regular ecstasy user sample reported lifetime use of mephedrone and 17% reported use of mephedrone in the six months preceding the...

This paper shows that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible projection parameters, school improvements falling within currently observed performance levels yield very large gains. The present value of OECD aggregate gains...