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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 […]
Most people are confident and say they grasp the major online security concepts, but there are gaps, especially for newcomers to the internet. Despite the computer woes they might have experienced, 61% of internet users are confident that they can keep things like computer viruses, spyware, and adware off of their home computer when they […]
Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Council on Foreign Relations co-hosted a luncheon roundtable entitled “Secular Europe and Religious America: Implications for Transatlantic Relations” on April 21, 2005 at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. According to a 2002 Pew Global Attitudes survey, there are […]
TV Choices Okay, But Content Has Gotten Worse Americans are reasonably happy with the choice of what they can see on television, and there has been relatively little change in this sentiment over the past 11 years. A majority (55%) say they are at least “fairly satisfied” with the choices available to them (12% very […]