China’s eBay-MySpace
In China, there is a virtual meeting place for people who have social connections to buy or sell.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
To what extent are sites trying to bypass the filter of traditional media by becoming their own information outlets, controlled by the campaigns, and appealing to voters directly? The study assessed this by examining six different elements: candidate biographies, issue pages, links to mainstream news media reports, press releases, videos and the frequency of updates. […]
Predictions inspire lively discussion about the future, and help stakeholders prepare for adjustments associated with technological change. Those who think about the future are best poised to influence it. The visionary 20th century engineer, mathematician and architect R. Buckminster Fuller argued that, “We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” One […]
Prediction and Reactions Prediction: By 2020, worldwide network interoperability will be perfected, allowing smooth data flow, authentication and billing; mobile wireless communications will be available to anyone anywhere on the globe at an extremely low cost. An extended collection of hundreds of written answers to this question can be found at: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2006survey/globalnetworkthrives.xhtml Overview of Respondents’ Reactions […]
Prediction and Reactions Prediction: As sensing, storage and communication technologies get cheaper and better, individuals’ public and private lives will become increasingly ‘transparent’ globally. Everything will be more visible to everyone, with good and bad results. Looking at the big picture – at all of the lives affected on the planet in every way possible […]
A selection of biographical data about some of the leading internet stakeholders who participated in the survey and were willing to take credit for their remarks. This collection of more than 250 brief biographies describing some of the 2006 Survey respondents includes data about some of the top participants who were willing to be quoted […]
On behalf of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the authors would like to acknowledge contributions to this study by the following people: Shyon Baumann, Victoria Boase, Wenhong Chen, Rochelle Côté, David Lazer, Bonnie Erickson, Jane Fountain, Bernie Hogan, Miki Itano, Tracy Kennedy, and Beverly Wellman. This material is based upon work supported by […]
New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? Aiming at Younger Audiences A major aspect of new free tabloids, according to their own descriptions, was their orientation toward youth. Newspaper readership, like much news consumption, skews old. The average age of a newspaper reader is 53, according […]