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    Obama’s Online Opportunities

    For a host of reasons, the new administration needs to develop a national broadband strategy but research suggests that users must be central actors in its design.

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    Obama’s Online Opportunities

    There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have…

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    Podcasts Proliferate

    About one-in-five internet users have downloaded a podcast.

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    Online political engagement in the U.S. and Japan

    The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, hosted a cross-cultural discussion of the internet and politics in which the word “cool” played a starring role.

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    Is Home Broadband Adoption Slowing?

    Our August 2008 survey shows that 57% of Americans have broadband at home, just a 3 percentage point increase since December 2007. Economic conditions may mean people are putting off the upgrade to broadband.

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    When Technology Fails

    Half (48%) of tech users need help from others in getting new devices and services to work, and many experience tech outages when there is a glitch with their home internet connection, computer, or cell phone. Coping with these failures is a hassle f…

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    Household types and technology ownership

    Introduction American households vary in the relationship of household members to each other and in their ownership of technology. While households can be separated into numerous categorizations, our survey identified six major categories that are discussed here in further detail. The apportionment of family types in our sample was quite close to the groupings measured […]

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    Part 1.1: Who Is Playing Games?

    Introduction Video gaming is so widespread among American teenagers that to paint a portrait of a typical teen gamer is to hold a mirror to the population of teens as whole. Nearly every teen plays games in some way, regardless of gender, age, or socioeconomic status. Opportunities for gaming abound, with teens owning multiple gaming […]

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    Podcast Downloading 2008

    As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast.