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There is a new online cat-and-mouse game between the United States and China, the two internet superpowers.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
75 million Americans used the internet in the last campaign to get political news and information, discuss candidates and debate issues in emails, or participate directly in the political process by volunteering or giving contributions to candidates….
WASHINGTON – The internet became an essential part of American politics in 2004. Fully 75 million Americans – 37% of the adult population and 61% of online Americans – used the internet to get political news and information, discuss candidates and debate issues in emails, or participate directly in the political process by volunteering or […]
WASHINGTON, March 23 — About 36 million Americans—or 27% of internet users—say they download either music or video files and about half of them have found ways outside of traditional peer-to-peer networks or paid online services to gather and swap their files, according to the most recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life […]
The internet’s role in campaigns has grown dramatically since 2000. There are several forces driving people’s increased use of the internet for getting general news and for getting political news in particular: There is a growing number of broadband users. The figure has jumped more than ten-fold since June of 2000, when the Pew Internet […]
The internet users who voted for Kerry were more engaged in online activities than Bush supporters. It is important to start an analysis of the partisanship of the internet population by noting that George Bush won the votes of more internet users than John Kerry did. Bush got 54% of the votes of internet users, […]
About the Pew Internet & American Life Project The Pew Internet Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan initiative of the Pew Research Center. The Project is a think tank that explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative […]
The internet became an important factor during the 2004 campaign. The internet’s distinctive role in politics has arisen because it can be used in multiple ways. Part deliberative town square, part raucous debating society, part research library, part instant news source, and part political comedy club, the internet connects voters to a wealth of content […]