Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
As digital technology becomes more and more of a fixture in Americans’ daily lives, it has infiltrated all sorts of domains, including how people meet, communicate with their romantic partners and manage their lives together. In an earlier report, Online Dating and Relationships, the Pew Research Center detailed the meeting part of the equation, looking […]
The overall verdict: The internet has been a plus for society and an especially good thing for individual users
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
This report is the first part of a sustained effort through 2014 by the Pew Research Center to mark the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Lee wrote a paper on March 12, 1989 proposing an “information management” system that became the conceptual and architectural structure for […]
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
A large majority of the technology experts and engaged Internet users who responded to this canvassing—83%—agreed that the Internet/Cloud of Things and embedded and wearable computing will have widespread and beneficial effects by 2025. Most of the responses shared in this report are from people who took credit for their remarks, but a few of […]
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
Direct visitors to 26 top news sites—those who type in the news outlet’s URL or have the address bookmarked—are far more engaged with that news than users who arrive from Facebook or a search engine, according to a new analysis of online traffic data.
Within a remarkably short period of time, some developing nations are catching up to the U.S. in technology use.
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
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