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While conversation about the 2016 presidential candidates on Reddit was robust in the summer and early fall of 2015, in the prelude to the primaries, it was one of many topics of conversation on the site competing for attention among its users. During the three months studied – May, June and September of 2015, more […]

A question that arises with any social media discussion forum is the extent to which users and the messages they post venture beyond their own worldview or remain in their own silos of news and information. The data here do not offer a definitive answer on how this dynamic plays out on Reddit, but we […]

The discussions of nearly all major presidential candidates grew over the three months studied, but within the liberal-leaning Reddit community, the discussions of some candidates far outweighed others. Three candidates received more than 70,000 comments across the three months (May, June and September 2015), while the vast majority were mentioned in fewer than 10,000 comments.[7. […]

This report consists of two distinct research elements, with separate methodologies: a representative survey of U.S. adults conducted through Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel and a content study of comments posted on the social forum reddit.com. Reddit, whose slogan proclaims it to be the “front page of the Internet,” is part social network, part […]