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    Part 4: Putting Privacy Practices in Context: A Portrait of Teens’ Experiences Online

    In the current survey, we wanted to understand the broader context of teens’ online lives beyond Facebook and Twitter and the context in which teens wrestled with all the privacy options before them. And while many teens report positive experiences online, such as making friends and feeling closer to another person, some encounter unwanted content […]

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    Introduction

    Teenage life online In June 2001, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project published its first report about teenage life online and described the state of teens’ experiences online this way: The Internet is the telephone, television, game console, and radio wrapped up in one for most teenagers and that means it has […]

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    Network News: A Year of Change and Challenge at NBC

    After an unusual uptick in the overall audience for evening news in 2011, the trend line returned to its normal in 2012. The combined viewership for the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts dropped 2%, to 22.1 million, resuming the downward trajectory of nearly three decades. It now appears that 2011 may have been an outlier, with the bigger audience attributable to an unusual number of major news events that year, including the Arab Spring, the Japanese earthquake and the killing of Osama bin Laden. Even a presidential election couldn’t keep some viewers from deserting network news in 2012.

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    Cable: A Growing Medium Reaching its Ceiling

    Cable news continues to operate with more stability than most other news sectors today. But financial growth tapered off in 2012, and audience figures started to show signs of languishing—at least raising the question of whether there is a ceiling for this niche news genre.

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    Americans Show Signs of Leaving a News Outlet, Citing Less Information

    Faced with shrinking revenue and dwindling audiences, news organizations in recent years have slashed staffs and reduced coverage. Most news consumers are little aware of the financial struggles that led to these cuts, a new Pew Research Center survey finds. Nevertheless, a significant percentage of them not only have noticed a difference in the quantity or quality of news, but have stopped reading, watching or listening to a news source because of it.

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    2012 Health Survey Data

    We posted a preliminary version of the September 2012 health survey data.

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    Section 6: Overall Impact of Technology on the Arts

    The arts organizations represented in the survey tend to agree with the notions that the internet and social media have “increased engagement” and made art a more participatory experience, and that they have helped make “arts audiences more diverse.”  They also tend to agree that the internet has “played a major role in broadening the […]

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    Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies

    Cultural organizations like theater companies, orchestras, and art museums are using the internet, social media, and mobile apps to draw in and engage audiences, provide deeper context around art, and disseminate their work beyond the stage and th…