An email interview with Lee Rainie
A day in the life at the Pew Internet Project and other revelations.
WASHINGTON, March 23 — About 36 million Americans—or 27% of internet users—say they download either music or video files and about half of them have found ways outside of traditional peer-to-peer networks or paid online services to gather and swap their files, according to the most recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life […]
Heavy News Consumers Among the most distinguishing characteristics of Dean activists is their intense interest in the news. Not only are they far more avid consumers of news than the general public but the sources they consult follow a substantially different pattern. Like many Americans, Dean activists pick the daily newspaper as their single most […]
The internet’s role in campaigns has grown dramatically since 2000. There are several forces driving people’s increased use of the internet for getting general news and for getting political news in particular: There is a growing number of broadband users. The figure has jumped more than ten-fold since June of 2000, when the Pew Internet […]
Fully 45% of American adult internet users and 57% of online teenagers have used the internet when they search for colleges or other schools to attend. Older teenage girls are the most likely to do this: 79% of online teenage girls ages 15-17 have used the internet to search for schools or colleges. Surveys of […]