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    Part 2: Gadget ownership and wireless connectivity

    Introduction Recent Pew Internet reports have noted that internet connectivity is increasingly moving off the desktop and into the mobile and wireless environment, particularly for specific demographic groups.[5.numoffset=”5″ Horrigan, John. (2009) “Wireless Internet Users,” Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, Washington, DC. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2009/12-Wireless-Internet-Use.aspx] Understanding an individual’s technological environment is now a vital clue […]

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    Discrimination Against Hispanics

    More Americans now say that Hispanics face “a lot” of discrimination than say the same about blacks, whites or Asians.

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    A Conversation With Tariq Ramadan

    European campaigns to ban burqas, the Swiss vote to bar new construction of minarets and attempted terrorist acts in the United States have renewed questions and concerns about the compatibility of Islam with Western society. Swiss-born scholar and philosopher of Islam Tariq Ramadan has written and spoken on the subject, generating widespread debate and reaction. […]

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    Chapter 5. Views of China

    Overall views of China have remained largely steady in the past year. Currently, majorities or pluralities in 15 of 21 countries outside of China have a positive view of this rising Asian power. In addition, publics in most nations surveyed see China more as a partner than as an enemy. The survey also finds that […]

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    Radical Islamist Movements: Jihadi Networks and Hizb ut-Tahrir

    Islamic radicalism in Western Europe is generally associated with networks and cells affiliated with global jihadi organizations, such as al-Qaeda, whose ideology calls for the violent pursuit of a global Islamic political order. By most accounts, support for radical extremist groups is relatively low among Muslims in Europe.[1. numoffset=”27″ See, for example, “The Great Divide: […]

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    Teens, Cell Phones and Texting

    Fully 72% of all teens — or 88% of teen cell phone users — send text messages, up from 51% of in 2006. Among all teens, text messaging has now overtaken every other common form of interaction with their friends.

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    Census History: Counting Hispanics

    Despite the long history of Hispanic residents in the United States, there was no systematic effort to count this group separately in the Census until the late 20th century.

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    Talk of Change Again Incites Bloggers

    Groups of bloggers amassed to decry two separate controversies last week: reported rule changes to the board game Scrabble and the declaration that April would be Confederate History Month in Virginia. On YouTube, politics were unusually popular, with three separate congressional videos leading the list. And Twitterers remained fascinated with the iPad.

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