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    Blacks Upbeat about Black Progress, Prospects

    Assessments about the state of black progress in America have improved more dramatically among blacks during the past two years than at any time in the past quarter century.

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    Part 1: Managing the ever-expanding reach of our digital footprints

    Searching for ourselves online The majority of adult internet users (57%) now use search engines to find information about themselves online, up from 47% in 2006. Internet users have become increasingly likely to use search engines to check up on their digital footprints. Since our last survey in 2006, search engines have vastly expanded their […]

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    III. Internet Use at Home

    In spite of the overall increase in internet usage among Latinos from 2006 to 2008, the percent of Latino online users who accessed the internet from home went up only marginally from 79% in 2006 to 81% in 2008. White internet users were more likely than Latino internet user to go online from home – […]

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    Latinos Online, 2006-2008

    64% of Latino adults ages 18 and older used the internet in 2008, compared with 54% of Latinos in 2006.

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    Latinos Online, 2006-2008: Narrowing the Gap

    From 2006 to 2008, internet use among Latino adults rose by 10 percentage points, from 54% to 64%, compared with a four percentage point rise among whites and a two percentage point rise among blacks.

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    Overall Coverage of Hispanics in the News

    For both Muslims and Asians, nine out of ten stories involved events abroad.  By contrast, Hispanics were much more of an American story—58% of the coverage with significant references to Hispanics involved domestic news. Likewise, about two-thirds (65%), of the coverage of Africans and/or African-Americans involved domestic news. FOOTNOTES: 1. The Asian/Asian-American group was understood […]

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    News and the internet

    Six in ten American adults (61%) get news online on a typical day, placing it third among the six major news platforms asked about in the survey, behind local television news and national or cable television news.  While the internet is growing as a news platform, it has not displaced completely offline news sources for […]

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    Part 3: News and the internet

    Introduction Six in ten American adults (61%) get news online on a typical day, placing it third among the six major news platforms asked about in the survey, behind local television news and national or cable television news.  While the internet is growing as a news platform, it has not displaced completely offline news sources […]

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    Chapter 2. Views of President Barack Obama

    U.S. President Barack Obama remains popular across much of the world. Majorities or pluralities in 16 of 22 countries surveyed express at least some confidence in the American president to do the right thing regarding world affairs. In five of six predominantly Muslim countries, however, more than half lack confidence in Obama; only in Indonesia […]

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    Crime Events Raise Concerns About Juvenile Justice

    The week of July 19, six different stories involving juvenile justice circulated in the Baltimore media. By week’s end, as news organizations looked for overlapping themes, the stories formed a loose master narrative about how authorities tried to prevent juvenile crime and punish offenders in Maryland. In the process, at least one crime incident that […]