The Social Life of Health Information
Americans’ pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online and offline sources.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Internet and Technology
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61% of American adults look online for health information
A majority of American adults look online for health information and most are accessing reviews and comments posted by fellow consumers.
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The nine tribes of the internet
This speech looks at how government leaders and others can apply the Pew Internet tech-user typology to promoting their missions.
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The Future of Personal Health Records
A hearing was held to discover privacy, security, and confidentiality issues around personal health records, social media, and the future of medicine.
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Eating, Thinking and Staying Active with New Media
Media-Smart Youth expert panel discussion on the integration of the internet into daily life and what this means for educational programs that seek to engage youth through new media.
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Teens, Mobile and Games
At a Federal Trade Commission brownbag, Amanda Lenhart reviewed four years of Pew Internet data on youth and mobile phones as well as Pew findings on youth and video games.
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It’s Personal: Similarities and Differences in Online Social Network Use Between Teens and Adults
This presentation dives into the demographics of teen and adult social network users and looks at how youth use of social networks compares to use by adults, both in frequency, but also in purpose and behavior.
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Online Classifieds
The number of online adults who use classified ads websites, such as Craigslist, more than doubled from 2005 to 2009.
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Onramps to Online Life: How Do People Access Digital Information?
John B. Horrigan will participate on a panel entitled “Scarcity, Diversity, Efficiency: Media Structure Regulation Reconsidered” at the Quello Center’s 2009 Communication Law and Policy Symposium. The title for this year’s symposium is “Rethinking…
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Cyberbullying: What the research is telling us…
This talk surveys the current research on cyberbullying and online harassment, pulling in Pew Internet data as well as the work of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, Internet Solutions for Kids and othe…