Ask the Expert: How do you choose the topics you research?
Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie answers the question, “How does the Pew Internet & American Life Project choose the topics that it researches?”
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie answers the question, “How does the Pew Internet & American Life Project choose the topics that it researches?”
Excerpts from material contributed by the Pew Internet Project to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism “State of the News Media” report.
Our colleagues at the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism have developed a New Media Index and are unveiling it today.
Predictions about the fate of the cell phone, the future of voice recognition, the advantages and disadvantages of personal transparency, the architecture of the internet, and where leisure and work are headed — and much more.
Introduction In the past few years, the growing number of Americans living in households without landline telephones has challenged survey researchers to develop a variety of approaches to deal with this non-coverage issue. One approach is to add interviews over the cell phone to traditional random digit dial surveys of landline telephones.1 Adding cell phone […]
Where do you turn when you have a problem? Family and friends? Experts? Internet searches? Libraries?
We asked those and a variety of other questions on a recent survey and found some surprising things.
28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. Findings and interview with David Weinberger
60 million Americans say that the internet helped them make big decisions or negotiate their way through major episodes in their lives.
A wide-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and interested members of the public finds that most experts expect the internet to be more deeply integrated in our physical environments—with mixed results.
Those who have home broadband connections use the Internet differently from those who have dial-up connections. Broadband users spend more time online, do more things, and do them more often than dial-up Internet users.
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