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About the Pew Internet & American Life Project: The Pew Internet Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Internet explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health […]
Introduction After a long trend toward less news coverage of candidates’ words and policy positions, the online environment is offering engaged voters new chances to gather more comprehensive information about campaign events, candidates’ speeches, and office-seekers’ positions on issues. They are doing workarounds of “sound bite” culture by using the internet to view campaign events […]
The 2008 Pew Global Attitudes survey in China finds that more than eight-in-ten Chinese are satisfied with their country’s overall direction and their national economy, a significant increase in contentment from earlier in the decade. But levels of personal satisfaction are generally lower than the national measures, and the poll suggests the Chinese people – who express concern about inflation and pollution – may be struggling with the consequences of economic growth.
Introduction Previous work by the Pew Internet Project suggests that the communicative functions of the internet and cell phones are the main reason why teens use these technologies.[15.numoffset=”15″ Analysis of daily communications choices is based on all teens, regardless of technology ownership.],[16. Lenhart, Amanda, Madden, Mary & Hitlin, Paul. (2005) “Teens and Technology: Youth are […]
They see considerable benefits to using technology in their school and non-school writing and say they would welcome even more writing instruction