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    4. Collaborative: Crowdfunding platforms

    Along with commercialized sharing and on-demand access, collaboration is a third hallmark of the new digital economy. Thanks to a proliferation of open digital platforms, people around the world can join together to take part in a variety of collaborative activities – from creating and circulating government petitions to supporting journalistic endeavors or helping to […]

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    1. The joy – and urgency – of learning

    Two large forces are driving fresh interest in the way people learn and why they learn. The first force is the rise of the internet and its disruptive potential for education, both for the formal purpose of gaining extra training and credentials and for the informal purpose of learning new things in hope of personal […]

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    1. The journalists covering Washington and whom they work for

    The cohort of journalists covering Washington affairs, from Congress to the White House and other federal agencies, continues to evolve. Reporters working for specialty publications often catering to elite audiences, labeled “niche” outlets in this report, have risen in number. So too have journalists working for publications that were born on the web – newer […]

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    Your favorite Fact Tank data in 2015

    From Millennials in the workforce to religion in America, our most popular posts told important stories about trends shaping our world.

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    3. The further rise of niche and digital media

    As legacy print media continue to scale back their presence on the Hill, niche and digital media have expanded. According to analysis of data from the Senate Press Gallery, 662 journalists from niche outlets and broad-interest websites were accredited to the Gallery in 2014, a number that increased by about one-third (32%) from 2009 levels. […]

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    3. Attitudes about video games

    As gaming has gained exposure to a wider audience and increasingly become part of the cultural mainstream, the content of games themselves has come under increased scrutiny. To test public attitudes toward some of these ongoing arguments, the survey presented Americans with some potential impacts of games and asked whether they consider these attributes to […]