Is there too much pressure to be social online?
MySpace, Facebook, OpenSocial … technology keeps pushing us to be social online. Do we even have a choice anymore?
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
MySpace, Facebook, OpenSocial … technology keeps pushing us to be social online. Do we even have a choice anymore?
This is a general discussion of the hallmarks of the new digital ecosystem and some of the changes that have occurred to people’s relationship to each other and people’s relationship to information and media.
How is Facebook planning to make money?
For the last seven years, we have observed a waiting period of six months between the publication of a report and the upload of the data set. No more.
This is a rundown of the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s most recent findings related to internet use, especially Web 2.0 activities. It also goes through the Project’s new tech-user typology and the implications of the Project’s findings f…
Recently the Pew Internet Project conducted an informal, online survey about people’s “personal history of internet use.” There was an amazing richness to the personal stories we received and this is a selection of what you had to say.
Parents view the internet less favorably than in 2004, yet are still engaged with their children’s media consumption. Teens are more likely than their parents to say tech devices are helpful.
Teens are more likely than their parents to say tech devices are helpful
Ed Castronova offers insights into the rise of virtual identities through online games and raises questions about the future of interpersonal communication.
Pew Internet Project research on teenagers’ use of social networking applications explores the reasons why these sites are so popular and how they are changing communication patterns and expectations of connectivity among young library patrons.