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Social media as social lubricant

Chandan Kumar Jha and Sudipta Sarangi (LSU): Social Media, Internet and Corruption. Sebastian Valenzuela and Daniel Halpern (PUC) and James Katz (BU): Facebook, Marriage Well-being and Divorce: Survey and State-level Evidence from the United States. Robin Rymarczuk and Maarten Derksen (Groningen): Different Spaces: Exploring Facebook as Heterotopia. Javier Sajuria (UCL): Are We Bowling at All? An Analysis of Social Capital in Online Networks. Paul Leonardi and Samantha Meyer (Northwestern): Social Media as Social Lubricant: How Ambient Awareness Eases Knowledge Transfer. Here are tips for not being an ass on social media. Clicking their way to outrage: On social media, people proudly trumpet their ethical outrage toward anyone or anything that has rubbed them the wrong way. With social media, the compelling opportunities for self-expression outstrip the supply of things we have to confidently say about ourselves. Research suggests being ignored on Facebook is psychological hell. The science behind #ThrowbackThursday: Elizabeth Winkler on why we derive special pleasure from the act of remembering the past. Benjamin F. Jackson on censorship and freedom of expression in the age of Facebook. Dylan Matthews on 7 things you told Facebook without even realizing it. Facebook says it's sorry — we've heard that before. Steven Levy goes inside the science that delivers your scary-smart Facebook and Twitter feeds. Can an algorithm solve Twitter's credibility problem? Adrian Chen investigates. A eulogy for Twitter: The beloved social publishing platform enters its twilight. Miri Mogilevsky on a brief history of the war between Reddit and Tumblr. The first chapter from A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski.