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Internet and Technology
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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?
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Homo Connectus: The impact of technology on people’s everyday lives
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.
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Microsoft and Facebook
How is Facebook planning to make money?
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Data Set Policy Change
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.
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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.
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2.0 and the Internet World
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…
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Online Games
Ed Castronova offers insights into the rise of virtual identities through online games and raises questions about the future of interpersonal communication.
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Parents view the internet less favorably than in 2004
Teens are more likely than their parents to say tech devices are helpful
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Parent and Teen Internet Use
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.