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The Rev. Jerry Falwell, one of the founders of the Christian right movement, died Tuesday, May 15, 2007. The Pew Forum has assembled a variety of resources on Falwell’s passing, including news articles and reflections on his life. Also see a Pew Forum Q&A with Senior Fellow John Green about the future of the Christian […]
From Capitol Hill to a refugee camp in Lebanon to ABC’s investigative team, the Mideast and the war on terror thoroughly dominated the media last week. Meanwhile, a controversy of sorts erupted over how news outlets treated the results of a new survey of Muslim-American attitudes.
Introduction The development of the typology itself did not include demographic factors. A person’s gender, race, income, or educational level did not determine the group in which someone was slotted. In prior sections, the discussion of the demographic make up of each group sought to fill out the portrait of the typical member of each […]
Connected but Hassled: Many in this group have invested in a lot of technology, but the connectivity is a hassle for them. This group of older technology users in many ways represents the average when it comes to consumption of information goods and services. However, when focusing on use of information technology and attitudes about […]
School Prayer The most enduring and controversial issue related to school-sponsored religious activities is classroom prayer. In Engel v.Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court held that the Establishment Clause prohibited the recitation of a school-sponsored prayer in public schools. Engel involved a simple and seemingly nonsectarian prayer composed especially for use in New York’s public schools. […]
With lower-than-average technology assets, ICTs have less of an impact on Inexperienced Experimenters. Yet they like how ICTs connect them to other and some have tried Web 2.0 applications. This group is below average when it comes to having some information technologies (namely broadband access) and understandably it does less with fewer services and technologies […]
“Mobile Centric” users are the second wave of young technology adopters. Mobile communication is important, and the cell phone is a multifaceted tool. With a median age of 32, this is the second youngest group overall. The cell phone is the device to which members of this group are most attached. Mobile Centric group members […]
The now-resolved hostage crisis with Iran attracted the most media coverage last week while the investigation into the fired U.S. attorneys went on temporary hiatus. But even with the voting 19 months away, the 2008 race for the White House continues to fascinate the press, the second story only behind the debate over the war in Iraq.
For Lackluster Veterans, modern ICTs are just OK. Although they are content with gadgets’ communicative aspects, few like their intrusiveness and not many see ICTs adding to their personal productivity. This group’s typical member has been online for a long time – roughly ten years – and has folded the use of the internet into […]