Big jump in search engine use
Nearly 60 million online Americans use search engines on an average day.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Washington – A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men use the internet shows that men continue to pursue many internet activities more intensively than women, and that men are still first out of the blocks in trying the latest technologies. At the same time, there are trends showing that women are catching […]
Half of online teens say they download music. In our 2000 survey of teens and internet use, roughly the same portion, 53% of online teens, reported music downloading. However, the raw size of the online teen population has grown over time such that there are now about 11 million teens who say they download music, […]
Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in December 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Leigh Eric Schmidt, a professor of religion at Princeton University and author of several books on the history of religion in American […]
Executive Summary Paper presented to the 33rd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference September 24, 2005 John B. Horrigan Director of Research Pew Internet & American Life Project jhorrigan@pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet 202.419.4512 Executive Summary: The rate of growth in penetration of high-speed internet at home has slowed and could slow further after several years of rapid growth. […]
Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in December 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Grace Davie, who has a chair in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter and is the director of the […]
The nature of teens’ online activities changes with age and access. In the same way that age matters when looking at patterns of internet use among different generations of adults, teens continue to demonstrate different phases of internet use as they grow older and new technologies become available to them. Some of these changes in […]
Tom Rosenstiel, Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism Bill Kovach, Chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists After another mean season for the press with scandals involving inaccuracies and plagiarism what should we make of the latest survey data about the news media? By many measures, the public’s view of the […]
Summary of Findings Public attitudes toward the press, which have been on a downward track for years, have become more negative in several key areas. Growing numbers of people question the news media’s patriotism and fairness. Perceptions of political bias also have risen over the past two years. Yet despite these criticisms, most Americans continue […]