英文文献:Homicide and Social Media: Global Empirical Evidence-杀人与社交媒体:全球经验证据
英文文献作者:Simplice A. Asongu,Joseph I. Uduji,Elda N. Okolo-Obasi
英文文献摘要:
This study investigates the relationship between social media and homicide in a cross section of 148 countries for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit and Quantile regressions. The findings from Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit regressions show a negative relationship between Facebook penetration and the homicide rate. The negative relationship is driven by the 75th quantile of the conditional distribution of the homicide rate. The negative nexus is also driven by upper middle income countries and “Europe and Central Asia”. Three main implications are apparent when the findings are compared and contrasted. First, established findings from OLS and Tobit regressions are driven by countries with above-median levels of homicide. Second, such above-median countries are largely associated with upper middle income countries and nations in “Europe and Central Asia”. Third, modelling the relationship between Facebook penetration and homicide at the conditional mean of homicide may be misleading unless it is contingent on initial levels of homicide and tailored differently across income levels and regions of the world.
本研究调查了2012年148个国家的社会媒体和凶杀之间的关系。经验证据是基于普通最小二乘,Tobit和分位数回归。普通最小二乘法和Tobit回归的结果显示,Facebook渗透率和凶杀率呈负相关。这一负向关系是由他杀率条件分布的第75分位数驱动的。高收入国家和“欧洲和中亚”也构成了这种负关联。当对这些发现进行比较和对比时,有三个主要含义是明显的。首先,OLS和Tobit回归的既定结果是由他杀率高于中值水平的国家推动的。其次,这些中位数以上的国家大多与中上收入国家以及“欧洲和中亚”国家有关。第三,将Facebook渗透率与他杀率之间的关系建立在他杀率的条件均值上,可能会产生误导,除非它取决于他杀率的初始水平,并根据不同的收入水平和世界地区进行不同的剪裁。