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Report : Teens, Social Media, and Privacy

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:55:00 GMT

While teens share a wide range of information about themselves on social media sites, they also take steps to manage their privacy.

Report : The Best and Worst of Mobile Phones

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:10:00 GMT

Mobile phone owners like the convenience and ease of connectivity the devices offer, but rue that they can be interrupted more easily, have to pay the bills, and face bad connections.

Report : 4-in-10 Adults Use Social Networking to Engage in Political or Civil Activities

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:16:44 GMT

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.

Report : Twitter Use 2012

Thu, 31 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Report : Networked: The New Social Operating System

Wed, 30 May 2012 12:45:00 GMT

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.

Report : Three-Quarters of Smartphone Owners Use Location-Based Services

Fri, 11 May 2012 09:45:00 GMT

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.

Report : Teens & Online Video

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT

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.

Report : Teens, Smartphones & Texting

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Report : The Viral Kony 2012 Video

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:00:00 GMT

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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