Internet and Technology (Page 98)

short readsOct 23, 2013

Digital dating: Online’s share of the romance market

More people look for dates online than for home furnishings, health and personal-care items and several other types of consumer goods.
presentationOct 22, 2013

Mobile Health in Context

Susannah Fox will deliver a keynote address to a symposium hosted by the University of Maryland Health Sciences & Human Services Library in Baltimore
reportOct 21, 2013

Online Dating: What’s Your View?

Technology is fundamentally changing the nature of relationships in America, and online dating sites are an important part of that story. See how your views about online dating stack up with the rest of the population by first answering a few questions, then compare your responses with the 2,252 randomly sampled adults who took part in a nationally representative survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.
presentationOct 21, 2013

Older Adults and Internet Use: (Some of) What we know

Mary Madden presented at a meeting convened at the University of Michigan to discuss the current state/future direction of research looking at older adults and tech use.
reportOct 21, 2013

Part 2: Dating Apps and Online Dating Sites

11% of American adults—and 38% of those who are “single and looking”—have used online dating sites or mobile dating apps One in every ten American adults has used an online dating site or a mobile dating app. We refer to these individuals throughout this report as “online daters,” and we define them in the following […]
reportOct 21, 2013

Part 4: Social networking sites, Cell Phones, Dating, and Relationships

The technological landscape has changed dramatically since we first studied dating and relationships in the fall of 2005. At the time we conducted our first survey on this topic, the release of the iPhone was still two years in the future, Facebook was in the process of expanding from college campuses to high schools, and […]
reportOct 21, 2013

Part 3: The Broader Online Environment around Dating and Relationships

Online dating sites are just one of the ways that people can meet prospective partners online. In this chapter, we examine the wider online landscape around dating and relationships, and the ways in which Americans are using the internet to meet and interact with potential, current, or past love interests. 5% of those Americans who […]
reportOct 21, 2013

How do we know that social media is important to health care?

I began a recent speech at a medical school with a question that many busy clinicians might be asking: How do we know that social media is important to health care?
reportOct 21, 2013

Online Dating

The internet, cell phones, and social media are the new wingmen.
reportOct 21, 2013

Methods

This report is based on the findings of a survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from April 17 to May 19, 2013, among a sample of 2,252 adults, age 18 and older. Telephone interviews were […]