Mayday, mayday!: Social Media Down

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dc.contributor.advisorLafortune, Jeanne
dc.contributor.advisorCelhay, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorEyzaguirre Ercilla, Alejo
dc.contributor.otherPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-20T18:46:27Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2023-01-19T20:08:09Z
dc.descriptionTesis (Magíster en Economía)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2022
dc.description.abstractWhat would happen if social media platforms turned off? This article sheds light on the short-term effects of a forced exogenous shutdown of social media without prior notice. If social media is addictive, dependent individuals should first suffer mood disorders and behavior changes as withdrawal symptoms but then benefit from its forced avoidance. Using a difference-in-differences and an event studies strategy, I exploit the random timing of the Meta outages and differences in social media penetration between geographic units or cohorts to identify the causal effects. I find that in Chile, during an outage day, geographical areas with eight percentage points more social media penetration experience 16% fewer mental health-related emergency room admissions. There is no apparent effect on car accidents when comparing geographical units, but more exposed cohorts experience fewer car accidents during prolonged outages. Last, in the U.S., there is no effect on Google searches for some plausible withdrawal symptoms. Overall, I am unable to find evidence of negative impacts of shortages; if anything, these seem to be positive.
dc.description.version2023-01-21
dc.fechaingreso.objetodigital2023-01-19
dc.format.extent46 páginas
dc.fuente.origenAutoarchivo
dc.identifier.doi10.7764/tesisUC/ECO/66402
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.7764/tesisUC/ECO/66402
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/66402
dc.information.autorucInstituto de economía ; Lafortune, Jeanne ; 0000-0003-0127-0646 ; 1009322
dc.information.autorucInstituto de economía ; Celhay, Pablo ; 0000-0003-2444-6472 ; 1040151
dc.information.autorucInstituto de economía ; Eyzaguirre Ercilla, Alejo ; S/I ; 1045708
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subject.ddc330
dc.subject.deweyEconomíaes_ES
dc.titleMayday, mayday!: Social Media Downes_ES
dc.typetesis de maestría
sipa.codpersvinculados1009322
sipa.codpersvinculados1040151
sipa.codpersvinculados1045708
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