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    Timeslot, Diversity, and Ratings

    Timeslot, Diversity, and Ratings Timeslot Makes A Difference One question about the data is whether differences in timeslot might alter the results. Over the five years of study, we have found a consistent tendency for early evening newscasts to be stronger than late night. Generally, 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts-those preceding prime time-tend to […]

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    The Internet and the Iraq war

    In the early days of the war with Iraq, 77% of online Americans used the Internet in some connection with the war. They went online to get information about the war, to learn and share differing opinions about the conflict, to send and receive emails about events, to express their views and to offer prayers.

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    Part Three: The Portals

    One Way or Another Campaigners are disappointed with the effectiveness of the Internet.  Citizens are frustrated in their searches for political information.  Could the portals assuage these concerns, and advance the state of online political communication? Subscribers and other users of the big Internet portals constitute a huge portion of the online population. According to […]

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    Part Two: The Online Citizenry

    I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For This section of the report is based on a tracking survey of 2745 U.S. adults conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates (PSRA) for the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the Institute between October 20 and November 24, 2002.  The section also draws on a continuous […]

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    Part One: The Campaigners

    Message in a Bottle In the two weeks following the 2002 general election, the Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet conducted interviews with campaign staff from 33 of the most hotly contested races for governor, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Representative.  We wanted to learn about the Internet’s utility as a campaign tool from campaign […]

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    The Faith-Based Initiative Two Years Later: Examining its Potential, Progress and Problems

    10 a.m.-Noon Rescheduled from February 18 Washington, D.C. Featured Speakers: Stanley Carlson-Thies, Fellow, Center for Public Justice; former White House Associate Director for Cabinet Affairs Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State Respondents: Anne Farris, Washington Correspondent, the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy Fredrica D. Kramer, Senior Consultant […]

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    Political Sites Gain, But Major News Sites Still Dominant

    Introduction and Summary More Americans used the Internet to get campaign information in 2002 than during the last midterm election four years ago. While much of this increase has come from the overall growth in the online population, a higher proportion of Internet users sought election news than did so four years ago (22% now, […]

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    Part 6: Easy-to-find, reliable news drives active news surfers

    The audience for online news has been seen substantial growth in the past two and one-half years.  In March 2000, about 52 million Americans (or 60% of Internet users) had gone online for news, a figure that increased to 82 million (or 70% of Internet users) by October 2002.  The newsgathering habits of these Internet […]