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What teens see in closed online spaces like the Discord app

  • Written by Brianna Dym, Ph.D. Candidate of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
imageIn online communities, people can explore their interests – even if they're not common ones.tomass2015/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images

Ever since the earliest days of the internet in the 1980s, getting online has meant getting involved in a community. Initially, there were dial-up chat servers, email lists and text-based discussion...

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