---
title: "How social can news get?"
description: "Lee Rainie speaks at a conference on citizen journalism and social media (updated with slides)"
date: "2011-02-05"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2011/02/05/how-social-can-news-get/"
categories:
  - "Digital News Landscape"
  - "News Media Trends"
  - "News Platforms & Sources"
  - "Social Media"
  - "Social Media & the News"
tags:
  - "News"
---

# How social can news get?

Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet Project, discusses the Project’s latest findings at the [SoCon11 conference](http://csjconferences.org/socon11/). He goes through trends in social media use in the last five years of the Project’s data. He explores how the turn to pervasive, participatory, personal, and portable news changes the way news consumers and producers behave and think about the role of news in their lives.

http://www.slideshare.net/lrainie/2011-2511-kennesaw-social-news