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    Patients and Online Communities

    What does the internationalization of information mean for patients and health professionals? What are the strengths – and weaknesses – of online patient communities?

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    Future of the Internet

    A look at the latest survey results about how experts predict the future impact of technology.

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    The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future

    Technology experts and stakeholders believe 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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    Chronic Disease and the Internet

    People living with chronic disease are disproportionately offline. And yet, those who are online have a trump card: They have each other. They gather and share information; they learn from their peers; and they just keep going.

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    Chronic Disease in Data and Narrative

    The back-story on the report, “Chronic Disease and the Internet,” including answers to questions about probability vs. causality and why we included quotes from patients throughout the analysis.

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    Baby Boomers in the Digital Age

    Lee Rainie discusses recent Pew Internet findings about how Baby Boomers use the internet at the Boomer Business Summit in Chicago.

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    Lee Rainie talks with Media Life about the economics of online news

    Q. What was the most interesting thing you discovered in compiling this report? LR: The material I sent you is part of a much larger analysis of the State of the News Media that was done by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ). There are a tremendous number of new insights […]