Ask the Expert: How do you choose the topics you research?
Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie answers the question, “How does the Pew Internet & American Life Project choose the topics that it researches?”
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Deficit Neutral
Americans are evenly split on whether spending more to help the economy recover or reducing the federal deficit should be a higher government priority.
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Smartphones expected to drive most work from the desktop to ‘the cloud’
Most experts surveyed in Pew Internet/Elon University study say cloud computing is taking over; some warn about security, privacy, availability of broadband spectrum, and issues related to consumer choice and control.
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The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future
Main findings One of the long-running hopes of technology supporters is that the internet and cell phones will bring positive change to institutions of all kinds. This tension pair was designed to assess those hopes. While the largely pro-technology group of respondents expressed overall enthusiasm for the change they hope will come to all kinds […]
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VI. Education: The Gap Between Expectations and Achievement
Latino schooling in the U.S. has long been characterized by high dropout rates and low college completion rates.[15. numoffset=”15″ Kewal Ramani, Gilbertson, Fox and Provasnik, 2007.] Both problems have moderated over time, and across generations, though a persistent educational attainment gap remains between Hispanics and non-Hispanics.[16. For more background, see the Pew Hispanic Center report […]
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Health Care Still Top Story, But Many Track Volcano
Summary of Findings Americans say they followed news about the new health care law more closely than any other major story last week, but many also kept a close watch on the economy and the ash-spewing volcano in Iceland that disrupted international air travel. Though media coverage of the health care debate has dropped significantly […]
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About this report
About the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring […]