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reportSep 14, 2010

Rise of the ’Apps Culture’

While cell phone apps are popular among a segment of the adult cell phone using population, a notable number of cell owners are not yet a part of the emerging apps culture. But those who do download and use apps do so fairly frequently. Popular apps include entertainment (games, music, etc.) as well as those that provide information (maps, weather).
reportSep 2, 2010

Cell phones and American adults

72% of adults text; Americans say their mobile phones make them feel safer and more connected, but are irritated by cell intrusions and rudeness by other users.
reportSep 14, 2010

The Rise of Apps Culture

35% of U.S. adults have apps on their phone, but only 24% actually use them; 11% of cell users do not know if they have apps or not
reportOct 19, 2010

Mobile Health 2010

The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults.
short readsAug 10, 2010

Henry Louis Gates: Top Black Media Story

Nearly one-fifth of all coverage studied during the year relating to African Americans had to do with the arrest of and controversy surrounding Henry Louis Gates.
reportNov 24, 2010

Use of the internet in higher-income households

Those in households earning over $75,000 are different from other Americans in their tech ownership and use.
reportJul 26, 2010

Media, Race and Obama’s First Year

The fallout from the firing of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod and the one-year anniversary of the controversial arrest of African American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., have put race back in the news. How much coverage do African Americans receive? What role did race play in coverage of the Obama Administration? A new study examining media coverage of African Americans in the first year of the Obama presidency offers answers.
reportAug 11, 2010

Home Broadband 2010

After several years of double digit growth, broadband adoption has slowed dramatically in 2010, but growth among African-Americans jumped well above the national average.
reportAug 11, 2010

Home Broadband 2010

Broadband adoption slowed dramatically in 2010, but growth among African-Americans jumped well above the national average; 53% of Americans do not think affordable broadband should be a government priority.
reportNov 15, 2010

National Latino Leader? The Job is Open

When asked in an open-ended question on a nationwide survey of Latinos to name the person they consider “the most important Latino leader in the country today,” nearly two-thirds (64%) of Hispanics said they did not know.