Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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 […]
A review of Pew Research Center for the People & the Press findings
Internet users are very happy with their experiences searching the internet, but many are naive about how they search and the results they find.
Institutions After giving us some personal information in the survey such as their institutional affiliations, the experts were asked the following question, “On a scale of 1-10 with 1 representing no change and 10 representing radical change, please indicate how much change you think the internet will bring to the following institutions or activities in […]
Twenty-six percent of adult internet users in the U.S. have rated a product, service, or person using an online rating system. These systems, also referred to as “reputation systems,” are interactive word-of-mouth networks that assist people in making decisions about which users to trust, or to compare their opinions with the opinions expressed by others. […]