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Manuel Cebrian,

Iyad Rahwan,

Alex "Sandy" PentlandAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 59, Issue 4

Pages 36 - 39

https://doi.org/10.1145/2818992

Published: 23 March 2016 Publication History

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The proliferation of social media usage has not resulted in significant social change.

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