The internet as a diversion and destination
Americans are increasingly going online for no particular reason except to have fun or to pass the time.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Americans are increasingly going online for no particular reason except to have fun or to pass the time.
Lee Rainie spoke about “As learning goes mobile” at the Educause 2011 annual conference. He described the Project’s latest findings about how people (especially young adults) use mobile devices, including smartphones and tablet computers.
Lee Rainie discusses how libraries can be actors in building and participating in social networks through their use of social media and through delivering their time-tested — and trusted — services to their patrons.
Lee Rainie looks at the value of libraries to their communities. (Now updated with video and slides.)
Lee Rainie speaks about networked individuals and networked librarians at the annual conference of university librarians in North Carolina
Most experts surveyed in the latest Pew Internet/Elon University study say social benefits of Internet use far outweigh negatives; some say it robs time, exposes private information, engenders intolerance.
Adults are just as likely as teens to have texted while driving and are substantially more likely to have talked on the phone while driving.
Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, discusses how technology is helping “networked individuals” reshape their relationship to media, to information, and to each other.
Lee Rainie spoke to librarians in Barcelona (May 19, 2010) and Madrid (May 21, 2010) about how libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem. Includes speech text and slides.
Information permeates all aspects of our lives and this changes people’s behaviors and expectations.
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