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Feb 06, 2013 - About 6-in-10 Facebook users report taking a break from the site and 20% say they no longer use the site at all.
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Nov 25, 2012 - Fully 85% of American adults own a cell phone, and the devices have become a portal for an ever-growing list of activities. Taking photos and texting top the list.
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Nov 08, 2012 - A new Pew Research Center report finds over half of smartphone owners gather health information on their phones, compared with 6% of non-smartphone owners.
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Nov 08, 2012 - Pew Research reports over half of smartphone owners gather health information on their phones, compared with 6% of non-smartphone owners.
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Nov 06, 2012 - Fully 22% of registered voters have told others how they voted on a social networking site, while 30% have been encouraged to vote for a candidate by family and friends and 20% have encouraged others to vote, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds.
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Nov 02, 2012 - The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reports some 66% of registered voters who use the internet—55% of all registered voters—have gone online this election season to watch videos related to the election campaign or political issues.
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Oct 25, 2012 - Americans are following the presidential campaign more closely on nearly every news platform than they were earlier in the year, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Oct 23, 2012 - The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reports that more than eight-in-ten Americans between the ages of 16 and 29 read a book in the past year, and six in ten used their local public library.
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Oct 19, 2012 - The use of social media is becoming a feature of political and civic engagement for many Americans. A new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project examines who is more likely to use social media to express their views, react to others' postings, follow candidates and 'like' and share others' content.
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Oct 19, 2012 - The use of social media is becoming a feature of political and civic engagement for many Americans. A new Pew Research Center Internet & American Life report examines who is more likely to use social media to express their views, react to others' postings, follow candidates and 'like' and share others' content.
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Aug 06, 2012 - According to a new report from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, nearly eight in 10 Americans are following coverage of the Olympic Games in London. Seventy-three percent say they watched the games on television, 17% say they have watched online, and 12% say they have followed coverage on social media sites.
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Aug 02, 2012 - Telemarketing calls and spam texts are realities for most cellphone users, according to a new survey. Smartphone owners are particularly likely to report dropped calls and slow download speeds.
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Jul 24, 2012 - The 19th International AIDS Conference, held this week in Washington, DC, included a session entitled, "The State of New Media and HIV," hosted by AIDS.gov. My role on the panel was a familiar one – to present the Pew Internet Project’s latest research about mobile, social technologies and their impact on health and health care.
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Jul 17, 2012 - Television's solitary screen is being supplemented by multi-screen interactivity. Half of all adult cell owners (52%) have used their phones recently for engagement, diversion, or interaction with other people while watching TV.
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Jun 29, 2012 - According to the latest report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, experts think tech-enhanced homes, appliances, and utilities will spread by 2020, but many of the analysts believe we still won’t be living in the long-envisioned ‘Homes of the Future.’
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Jun 26, 2012 - Some 17% of cell phone owners do most of their online browsing on their phone, rather than a computer or other device. Most do so for convenience, but for some their phone is their only option for online access.
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Jun 22, 2012 - According to the latest report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 12% of e-book readers have borrowed an e-book from a library. Those who use libraries are pretty heavy readers, but most are not aware they can borrow e-books.
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Jun 06, 2012 - As of April, 53% of American adults age 65 and older said they used the internet or email. Though these adults are still less likely than all other age groups to use the internet, this represent the first time that half of seniors are going online. After several years of very little growth among this group, these gains are significant.
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May 31, 2012 - While the overall number of adults with Twitter accounts remains steady, the proportion of online adults who say they use Twitter on a "typical day" has doubled since May 2011 and has quadrupled since late 2010. The rise of smartphones might account for some of the increase because smartphone users are particularly likely to be using Twitter.
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May 30, 2012 - Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, has written a book with sociologist Barry Wellman showing how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making and personal interaction. This new system of "networked individualism" offers some advantages in liberating people from the restrictions of tightly knit groups.
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May 21, 2012 - On Twitter especially, more people expressed views that the Internet company's stock was overhyped than highly valued. On Facebook, many people discussed CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as the founder also got married over the weekend.
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May 18, 2012 - According to survey results from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, interactive games that reward participants with points, badges, and discounts are on the rise. Experts believe they will spread widely to key areas, such as education and health, while others worry about a darker side.
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May 16, 2012 - For years, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been polling people who use social media to explore how they use it and what they get out of it. The results paint a portrait of what kind of people use sites such as Facebook, who they connected and how they manage their privacy.
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May 11, 2012 - Nearly three-fourths (74%) of smartphone users use their phones to obtain real-time, location-based information and almost one-in-five use geosocial services such as Foursquare. The overall portion of adults who get location-based information has almost doubled in less than a one-year period.
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May 07, 2012 - Nearly 9-in-10 (86%) smartphone owners used their phone in the past month to make real-time queries in their daily lives. Men are more likely than women to use their phones to find information to settle an argument. Parents with kids are more likely to use their phone to decide whether to visit a local business, such as a restaurant.
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May 03, 2012 - Online teens use video most to chat with others using applications such as Skype, Google Talk or iChat. Recording and uploading videos to the internet is the second most popular activity. Fewer teens stream live video for others to watch. Social media users are much more likely to engage in all three video behaviors.
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Apr 17, 2012 - Within the next decade, smart-device swiping will have gained mainstream acceptance as a method of payment and could largely replace cash and credit cards for most online and in-store purchases, according to a new survey of technology experts and stakeholders by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The experts also think credit cards and cash will survive among older adults and among those who have security concerns and a desire for anonymity.
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Apr 13, 2012 - While the number of Americans who go online has increased substantially over the years, about one-in-five adults still do not use the internet. Differences in internet access exist among different demographic groups, especially when it comes to access to high-speed broadband at home. Age (being 65 or older), a lack of a high school education, and having a low household income are the strongest negative predictors for internet use.
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Apr 12, 2012 - Nearly three quarters of Americans say they follow local news closely most of the time, whether or not something important is happening. These news enthusiasts are more wedded to their local newspapers than others. Yet, younger local news followers differ in some important ways, including less reliance on local papers -- a potential sign of changes to come in the local news environment.
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Apr 05, 2012 - One-fifth of American adults report that they have read an e-book in the past year. This number increased following a gift-giving season which saw a spike in ownership rates of both tablet computers and e-book reading devices, such as Kindles and Nooks. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than they have in the past and to show a preference for buying books rather than borrowing them.
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Mar 23, 2012 - A majority of technology experts generally believe the mobile revolution, the popularity of targeted apps, the monetization of online products and services, and innovations in cloud computing will drive Web evolution and make it stronger than ever in users' lives. Fewer of them hold the view that apps -- with their ease of use and quality assurance -- will make them, and not the open web, the dominant factor in peoples' online lives.
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Mar 19, 2012 - The volume of texting among teens has risen from 50 texts a day in 2009 to 60 texts for the median teen text user. More than six-in-ten teens say they exchange text messages every day with people in their lives. This far surpasses the frequency with which they pick other forms of daily communication, including phone calling by cell phone.
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Mar 15, 2012 - Young adults ages 18 to 29 were much more likely than older adults to have heard about -- and watched -- the 30-minute video about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony that went viral last week on YouTube. More young adults heard about the video through Twitter, Facebook or other internet sources than from traditional media such as television, newspapers and radio.
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Mar 12, 2012 - According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, nearly four-in-ten users of social networking sites have discovered through the postings of friends that their views were different than they thought. Three-quarters of social network users say their friends post at least some content related to politics on the sites from time to time. A small percentage of users have blocked or unfriended someone on the site because their postings were too frequent or offensive.
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Mar 09, 2012 - Even though online Americans are more satisfied than ever with the performance of search engines, strong majorities have negative views of information about their searches being used to personalize results and target ads.
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Mar 01, 2012 - Nearly half (46%) of American adults now own smartphones compared to 35% last May. The increase means that adult smartphone owners now outnumber those who own a cellphone that is not a smartphone.
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Feb 29, 2012 - While experts see many young people becoming nimble analysts and decision-makers because of their embrace of the networked world, they also warn that some teens and young adults will lack a deep engagement with people and knowledge by being hyperconnected.
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Feb 24, 2012 - As the increasing use of social media raises questions and concerns about privacy, a new study finds that most users choose restricted privacy settings for their profiles and that unfriending people and "pruning" content is on the rise.
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Feb 13, 2012 - With digital ad revenue projected to overtake all other platforms by 2016, it is the key to the financial future of news. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, even the top news websites are having difficulty persuading advertisers from traditional platforms to move online, and few news websites make significant use of consumer-targeted advertising.
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Feb 03, 2012 - A report by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that most Facebook users receive more attention from friends on Facebook than they give back when it comes to activities such as pressing the "like" button, trading messages, or tagging people in photos. The main reason is a segment of "power users" who contribute much more than the typical user does.
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Jan 30, 2012 - According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, more than half of adult cell phone owners used their cell phones while they were in a store during the 2011 holiday season to seek help with purchasing decisions, check product reviews, or compare prices.
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Jan 23, 2012 - According to surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, sales of tablet computers and e-book readers surged during the holiday season, causing the share of adults who own either device to nearly double -- from 10% to 19%.
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Jan 12, 2012 - Many Americans made use of the text messaging feature on their mobile phones to make contributions to disaster recovery efforts in Haiti after it was struck by a devastating earthquake in January 2010. The first in-depth study of mobile donors explores who the donors were and what motivated them to contribute.
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Dec 23, 2011 - Religiously active Americans are more tied to many civic and other organizations than non-religious Americans. Many report that their use of technology helps them in their group activities.
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Dec 20, 2011 - Two kinds of digital communication that are popular in the United States -- texting with cell phones and use of social networks -- are also popular in many places around the world. Text messaging has become a global phenomenon and use of social networks is popular, especially in wealthier nations that have higher rates of internet access.
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Dec 08, 2011 - The political conversation on Twitter is markedly different than that on blogs -- and both are decidedly different than the political narrative presented by the mainstream press, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The study analyzed more than 20 million tweets, the online conversation and traditional news coverage.
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Dec 02, 2011 - Americans are increasingly going online just to have fun and pass the time. This is particularly true of adults under 30.
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Nov 15, 2011 - Two-thirds of online adults (66%) use social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn. These internet users say that connections with family members and friends (both new and old) are a primary consideration in their adoption of social media tools.
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Nov 14, 2011 - Twitter has been embraced by news organizations today but is used in limited ways, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University. The study addresses questions about how news outlets use the social media tool to share, gather and curate information.
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Nov 09, 2011 - Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites. Many log on daily to their social network pages and these have become spaces where much of the social activity of teen life is echoed and amplified—in both good and bad ways.
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Nov 02, 2011 - The share of adult cell phone owners who have downloaded an app to their phone nearly doubled in the past two years – rising from 22% in September 2009 to 38% in August 2011 – according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
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Sep 26, 2011 - Traditional research has suggested that Americans watch local TV news more than any other local information source. But a new report by the Pew Research Center, in association with the Knight Foundation, offers a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the ecosystem of community information.
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Sep 19, 2011 - According to the latest survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, heavy text users are much more likely to prefer texting to talking. Some 55% of those who exchange more than 50 messages a day say they would rather get a text than a voice call.
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Sep 06, 2011 - Just over half of smartphone owners who use location-based services on their phones are doing so to get directions or recommendations based on their location.
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Aug 15, 2011 - Eighty-three percent of American adults own some kind of mobile phone. In a nationally representative telephone survey, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found that cell phones are useful for a wide variety of tasks but come with some disadvantages.
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Aug 09, 2011 - As they have done for nearly a decade, email and search form the core of online communication and online information gathering, respectively, even as new platforms, broadband and mobile devices continue to reshape the way Americans use the internet.
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Jul 26, 2011 - Rural internet users are now just as likely as users in urban and suburban areas to have used video-sharing sites, and online African-Americans and Hispanics are more likely than internet-using whites to visit video-sharing sites.
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Jul 11, 2011 - Smartphones have captured a significant share of the cellphone market in the U.S. and many now use them to access the Internet and their email.
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Jun 27, 2011 - According to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, the share of U.S. adults who own an e-book reader doubled from 6% in November 2010 to 12% in May 2011. Adoption of portable tablet computers has grown more slowly.
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Jun 16, 2011 - Findings from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project show that nearly half of adults now use social networking sites--double the number of users in 2008. Between 2008 and 2010, the average age of adult social network users rose from 33 to 38.
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Jun 01, 2011 - Currently, 13% of online adults use the status update service Twitter, up from 8% in November 2010. More than half of Twitter users tweet from their cell phones.
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May 31, 2011 - After years of modest activity, online phone calling has taken off as a quarter of American adult internet users (24%) have placed phone calls online. That amounts to 19% of all American adults.
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May 12, 2011 - The online conversation about health is being driven forward by two forces: 1) the availability of social tools and 2) the motivation, especially among people living with chronic conditions, to connect with each other.
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Mar 01, 2011 - Studies in three cities show that if people believe their local government shares information well, they also feel good about their town and its civic institutions. Avid information consumers from media and online sources are also more likely to be involved and feel they have impact.
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Feb 28, 2011 - About one-in-five internet users have gone online to find others with health concerns similar to theirs. Those with chronic conditions are even more likely to reach out to peers.
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Feb 09, 2011 - According to survey findings from the Pew Hispanic Center, Latinos are less likely than whites to access the internet, have a home broadband connection or own a cell phone.
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Feb 03, 2011 - While many tech devices have become popular across generations, Millennials are by far the most likely group not only to own most gadgets, but also to take advantage of a wider range of functions on those devices.
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Feb 01, 2011 - Health information remains one of the most important subjects that internet users research online. Symptoms and treatments continue to dominate internet users' health searches, but food safety, drug safety, and pregnancy information are among eight new topics included in the Pew Research Center's latest survey.
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Jan 27, 2011 - More than one-in-five online Americans engaged with the midterm elections on Twitter or social networking sites; Republicans -- especially Tea Party advocates -- caught up with Democrats in social media use.
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Jan 18, 2011 - The internet is having a wide-ranging impact on Americans' engagement with civic, social and religious groups, as organizations use digital tools -- such as Facebook and Twitter -- to bind themselves together and pursue goals.
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Dec 30, 2010 - Sixty-five percent of internet users have paid to access or download some kind of digital content. Music and software are the most common kinds of content purchased.
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Dec 23, 2010 - More than a quarter of American adults – 26% – used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign.
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Dec 16, 2010 - A 22-nation survey released by the Pew Research Center, finds that around the world -- and in countries with varying levels of economic development -- people who use the internet are using it for social networking.
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Dec 09, 2010 - "Who Tweets?" is the first-ever survey from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users.
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Nov 24, 2010 - Those in households earning over $75,000 are different from other Americans in their tech ownership and use.
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Nov 04, 2010 - Four percent of online adults use a location-based service such as Foursquare or Gowalla that allows them to share their location with friends and to find others who are nearby.
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Oct 19, 2010 - The online health-information environment is going mobile. 17% of cell phone users have used their phone to look up health or medical information and 9% have software applications or "apps" on their phones that help them track or manage their health.
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Oct 14, 2010 - In recent years the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop, and consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for “anytime, anywhere” access to news, information, friends and entertainment.
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Oct 13, 2010 - Almost a fifth of American adults – 19% – have tried video calling either online or via their cell phones. These figures translate into 23% of internet users and 7% of cell phone owners who have participated in video calls, chats, or teleconferences.
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Sep 29, 2010 - 58% of Americans have researched a product or service online; 24% have posted comments or reviews online about the things they buy.
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Sep 27, 2010 - Much of the coverage of technology in the mainstream press split into competing story lines: that it makes life easier and that it is not secure. Social media, however, had a more positive focus while Apple beat Google in coverage.
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Sep 14, 2010 - 35% of U.S. adults have cell phones with apps, but only 24% of adults actually use them. Apps users are younger, more educated, and more affluent than other cell phone users.
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Sep 02, 2010 - Adults make just as many calls, but text less often than teens. Americans say their mobile phones make them feel safer and more connected, but are irritated by cell intrusions and rudeness by other users.
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Aug 27, 2010 - Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010 according to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
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Aug 11, 2010 - The adoption of broadband internet access slowed dramatically over the last year. Two-thirds of American adults (66%) now have a broadband internet connection at home, a figure that is little changed from the 63% with a high-speed home connection at a similar point in 2009.
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Jul 09, 2010 - Tech experts generally believe that today’s tech-savvy young people will retain their willingness to share personal information online even as they get older and take on more responsibilities.
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Jul 07, 2010 - A new study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project finds that 59% of American adults now go online wirelessly using either a laptop or cell phone, an increase over the 51% of Americans who did so at a similar point in 2009.
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Jul 02, 2010 - Most experts surveyed in the latest Pew Internet/Elon University study say social benefits of Internet use far outweigh negatives; some say it robs time, exposes private information, engenders intolerance.
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Jun 18, 2010 - One in four (27%) American adults say they have texted while driving, the same proportion as the number of driving age teens (26%) who say they have texted while driving.
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Jun 11, 2010 - Technology experts and stakeholders say they expect they will ‘live mostly in the cloud’ in 2020 and not on the desktop, working mostly through cyberspace-based applications accessed through networked devices.
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May 26, 2010 - Reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young. While some internet users are careful to project themselves online in a way that suits specific audiences, other internet users embrace an open approach to sharing information about themselves and do not take steps to restrict what they share.
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May 24, 2010 - While most original reporting still comes from traditional journalists, technology makes it increasingly possible for the actions of citizens to influence a story’s total impact.
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May 05, 2010 - Americans are widely dissatisfied not only with government but with most major institutions. A recent survey finds one notable exception: tech firms.
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May 05, 2010 - Some 895 experts responded to the invitation of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center to predict the likely progress toward achieving the goals of the semantic Web by the year 2020.
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Apr 27, 2010 - Government agencies have begun to open up their data to the public, and a surprisingly large number of citizens are showing interest. Some 40% of adult Internet users have gone online for raw data about government spending and activities, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
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Apr 20, 2010 - Text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as the centerpiece of their communication strategies with friends.
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Mar 31, 2010 - Technology experts and stakeholders belive that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.
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Mar 24, 2010 - Americans living with a chronic disease are significantly less likely than healthy adults to have Internet access. The majority are online, however, and they are more likely to share what they know and to learn from their peers, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the California HealthCare Foundation.
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Mar 01, 2010 - An overwhelming majority of Americans get their news from multiple news platforms. Which media sectors do people in the U.S rely on most? How has the Internet and mobile technology changed the way people consume news? A Pew Research Center survey examines how Internet and cell phone users have transformed news into a social experience.
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Feb 19, 2010 - A survey finds most experts and stakeholders say the Internet will enhance—not degrade—our intelligence. It will also change the functions of reading and writing and be rebuilt around still-unanticipated gadgetry and applications.
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Feb 03, 2010 - The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that while the overall Internet population expanded continuously over the past decade, Millennials continue to be the most likely age group to go online (93% now use the Internet). However, their use of blogs, Twitter and social networking sites has changed in recent years.
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Jan 05, 2010 - As of December 2009, 74% of American adults (ages 18 and older) use the Internet.
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Dec 22, 2009 - The Pew Research Center's Hispanic Project and Internet Project combined forces to write an in-depth look at Internet penetration across racial and ethnic categories in the United States.
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Dec 21, 2009 - For most Americans the "aughts" scored close to zero on the scale of recent decades. But innovations such as cell phones and the Internet earn high marks, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Dec 15, 2009 - As texting has become a centerpiece in teen social life, parents, educators and advocates have grown increasingly concerned about the role of cell phones in the sexual lives of teens and young adults.
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Nov 16, 2009 - A new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project finds 43% of older teens have talked on cell phones and a quarter have sent text messages while driving. Nearly half of all teens have been in a car whose driver was texting.
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Nov 04, 2009 - A new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project challenges previous research which suggested that new digital technologies such as the Internet were increasing social isolation.
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Oct 21, 2009 - Some 19% of Internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
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Sep 10, 2009 - According to a new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, three-quarters of online economic users go online to relax and take their minds off of the recession. Fully 88% of 18-29 year old online economic users look to the internet to relax.
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Sep 01, 2009 - Political and civic involvement have long been dominated by those with high levels of income and education, leading some advocates to hope that Internet-based engagement might alter this pattern. However, a new report by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that the Internet is not changing the fundamental socio-economic character of civic engagement in America.
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Aug 19, 2009 - Pew Internet first surveyed teenagers about their mobile phones in 2004 when a survey showed that 45% of teens had a cell phone. Since then mobile phone use has climbed steadily among teens to 63% in 2006 and 71% in 2008.
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Jul 29, 2009 - According to the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, adults who have visited an online-video site have nearly doubled since 2006, outpacing other online pastimes such as networking, downloading podcasts and tweeting.
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Jul 22, 2009 - The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project finds that 56% of adult Americans have accessed the internet by wireless means, such as using a laptop, mobile device, game console, or MP3 player. The most prevalent way people get online using a wireless network is with a laptop computer.
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Jul 15, 2009 - According to the latest report by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, more than two-thirds of Americans search the Internet for financial information, most looking for good deals and job opportunities. Those made more anxious by what they learned outnumber those made more confident.
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Jun 17, 2009 - An April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows 63% of adult Americans now have broadband internet connections at home, a 15% increases from a year earlier.
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Jun 15, 2009 - In the decade since Napster’s launch, selling recorded music has become as much of an art as making the music itself.
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Jun 11, 2009 - While most Americans still turn to a doctor, a growing number is going online for medical issues, according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Fully 61% have used the internet for health info—up from 25% in 2000—and most report positive experiences. More adults are also turning to the Web for fitness and exercise information as well.
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May 22, 2009 - The number of online adults to use classified ads websites, such as Craigslist, more than doubled from 2005 to 2009.
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Mar 25, 2009 - Wireless connectivity has drawn many users more deeply into digital life.
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Feb 12, 2009 - About one-in-ten online adults now use Twitter or a similar 'micro-blogging' service that allows them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.
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Jan 28, 2009 - Contrary to the image of Generation Y as the "Net Generation," Internet users in their 20s do not dominate every aspect of online life. Gen X is the most likely to shop, bank and look for health info online. And larger percentages of older generations are doing many more activities online, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project surveys.
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Jan 14, 2009 - The share of adult Internet users who have a profile on a social networking site has more than quadrupled in the past four years, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's latest survey.
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Dec 14, 2008 - A survey of Internet leaders and analysts finds they expect the phone to become a primary device for online access, artificial and virtual reality to become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the Internet itself to improve. But they disagree about whether this will lead to more social tolerance or better home lives.
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Dec 07, 2008 - Over half of American adults play video games, and four out of five young adults play. Among adults, computers are the most popular gaming device, but among young adults gaming consoles are preferred. Virtual worlds only draw a small crowd.
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Nov 14, 2008 - Forty-eight percent of technology users need help from others with new devices, and many tech users encounter problems with their Internet connections, home computers or cell phones. As gadgets become more important to people, their patience wears thin when things break.
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Oct 19, 2008 - This national survey found that households with a married couple and minor children are more likely than other household types—such as single adults, homes with unrelated adults, or couples without children to have cell phones and use the Internet.
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Sep 16, 2008 - The first national survey of its kind finds that virtually all American teens play computer, console, or cell phone games and that the gaming experience is rich and varied, with a significant amount of social interaction and potential for civic engagement.
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Aug 28, 2008 - Nearly one in five internet users (19%) has downloaded a podcast to listen to or view later -- up from 12% in 2006. But podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few download podcasts on a typical day.
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Aug 06, 2008 - Almost half of all internet users now use search engines on a typical day.
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Jul 02, 2008 - The Pew Internet Project finds that adoption stalls for low-income Americans even as many broadband users opt for premium services that give them more speed.
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Apr 24, 2008 - Report looks at teens’ basic definition of writing, explores the various kinds of writing they do, seeks their assessment about what impact e-communication has on their writing, and probes for their guidance about how writing instruction might be improved.
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Mar 05, 2008 - Groups that have trailed in "traditional" internet access are in a better position to shape cyberspace as wireless devices make it more accessible.
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Mar 05, 2008 - Sixty-two percent of all Americans are part of a wireless, mobile population that participates in digital activities away from home or work. Not only are young people attuned to this kind of access, African Americans and English-speaking Latinos are more likely than white Americans to use non-voice data applications on their cell phones.
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Dec 30, 2007 - Report examines at how people use the Internet, libraries and government agencies when they need help.
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Dec 19, 2007 - The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media.
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Oct 24, 2007 - A report on Internet use by teens and their parents.
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Oct 17, 2007 - The impacts of high-speed connections extend beyond access to information to active participation in the online commons.
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Jul 26, 2007 - Analysis of the Democratic debate, which was widely anticipated for its groundbreaking format. For the first time, individuals could submit video questions via YouTube to be shown on-screen and answered by the candidates.
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Jul 03, 2007 - Findings on home broadband from a survey of 2,200 adult Americans conducted in February and March of 2007.
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Jun 01, 2007 - Belief.com won the 2007 National Magazine Award in "Online General Excellence" despite not being a household name; it may be the new model for online journalism.
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Apr 05, 2007 - The State of the News Media 2007 was designed to help users understand news media options available on the Web as well as to assist news outlets in defining the capabilities they have developed so far.
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Mar 14, 2007 - A report issued by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Internet & American Life Project titled “Latinos Online” which illustrates a gap between Hispanics and non-Hispanics in Internet use.
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Jan 31, 2007 - Pew Internet report on "tagging" includes an interview with author David Weinberger.
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Sep 24, 2006 - A survey of Internet leaders, activists, and analysts, conducted by the Pew Internet &American Life Project and Elon University predicts the future of the Internet.
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Aug 03, 2006 - Results of the biennial news consumption survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Oct 10, 2005 - October 2005 findings by the Pew Internet & American Life project about American adults' Internet access and usage.
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Aug 04, 2005 - The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that the Internet is a critical part of today's educational experience, according to many teenagers.
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Jul 29, 2005 - Pew Internet & American Life issues findings on the behavior of teenagers using the Internet.
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Jul 20, 2005 - The average American who uses the Web does not have a full understanding of some of the latest technology terms, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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Jul 07, 2005 - Pew Internet reports that spyware and adware are impacting user behavior online.
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Jun 20, 2005 - Statistics about online activities involving Web cams.
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Apr 05, 2005 - As iPod use expands, so does a new medium of Internet "broadcasts" called "podcasting."
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Jan 25, 2005 - National survey on search engine experiences of online population.
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Jan 10, 2005 - January 2005 report of online survey of Internet experts and technology leaders.
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Jan 02, 2005 - By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November established new contours for the blogosphere and its popularity.
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Sep 01, 2004 - A Pew Internet & American Life survey finds that more than four in ten online Americans instant message (IM).
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Jul 08, 2004 - A report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project find that millions go online for news and images not covered in the mainstream press.
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Jun 28, 2004 - A data memo from the Pew Internet & American Life Projecton on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
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Apr 25, 2004 - Study finds the number of American Internet users who say they download music or share files online has increased slightly, but continues to sag well below peak levels.
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Mar 15, 2004 - The annual report on American journalism from the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Jan 04, 2004 - A memo from the Pew Internet & American Life Project on the Recording Industry Association of America's lawsuits against those suspected of copyright infringement.
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Oct 01, 2002 - A new command of information born of the Internet is the dominant theme found in interviews with political journalists for this report. Whether it is the flow of political news, the latest polls or the conflicting comments of a candidate, information is now one click away.
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