Rural Areas and the Internet
This report provides a portrait of rural America’s Internet users, the activities they pursue online and their attitudes about the Internet compared to online Americans in urban and suburban communities
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
52% of rural adults go online.
WASHINGTON, D.C. January 12 – More than a third of the nation’s Internet users have gone online to get news and information, exchange emails about the race, or participate online in the current political campaign. Even among wired Americans, the Internet still lags far behind television and newspapers as voters’ main source of political news. […]
We have a new poll that shows cable news and the Internet are looming larger this year as sources of campaign information, as smaller numbers of Americans are turning to broadcast TV and newspapers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 — The percentage of online Americans downloading music files on the Internet has dropped by half and the numbers who are downloading files on any given day have plunged since the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) began filing suits in September against those suspected of copyright infringement. Furthermore, a fifth of […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 22 – The number of Americans who have done basic online activities such as getting health information, accessing government data, buying products, and participating in auctions has increased smartly in the past three years, but the growth of the number of Internet users has slowed dramatically markedly in the past two years. […]