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    Digital Life in 2025

    Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and ill

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    The Less-Hopeful Theses

    9) Dangerous divides between haves and have-nots may expand, resulting in resentment and possible violence. Many expert respondents used the terms “gap,” “haves and have-nots,” and “divides” while describing concerns about the impact of the Internet by 2025. Some said Internet access is a basic need that should be considered to be a human right. […]

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    Online Dating & Relationships

    One in ten Americans have used an online dating site or mobile dating app; 66% of them have gone on a date with someone they met through a dating site or app, and 23% have met a spouse or long term partner through these sites.

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    References

    Bell, Lisa, Gary Burtless, Janet Gornick, and Timothy M. Smeeding. 2007. “A Cross-National Survey of Trends in the Transition to Economic Independence,” in The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood, edited by Sheldon Danziger and Cecilia Rouse. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Card, David, and Thomas Lemieux. 2000. “Adapting to Circumstances: The Evolution […]

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    Teens and Mobile Apps Privacy

    58% of American teens have downloaded an app to a cell phone or tablet. More than half of teen apps users have avoided an app due to concerns about sharing their personal information.

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    Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice

    Teens often rely on themselves and the guidance they get from the websites they use to figure out how to manage their privacy online—but when they do seek advice, they go primarily to peers and parents.

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    Instagram, Vine, and the evolution of social media

    http://vimeo.com/68765934 Today, Facebook announced it will let users take and share short videos by way of Instagram, its photo-sharing app. This feature will likely compete with Twitter’s popular new short video application, Vine. Social networking has grown faster and changed more than any other internet activity during the lifespan of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & […]

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    The royal baby, your newest cousin?

    No wonder the world is going gaga over the birth of the newest heir to the British throne. We’re all related by blood to Kate, Will and their little prince. He’s our cousin—though for most people of European descent in the United States he’s our distant cousin as much as 35 times removed, give or take a few generations.

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    Chapter 7: Religion, Science and Popular Culture

    The survey asked Muslims about their views on various dimensions of contemporary life. Muslims see few tensions between their faith and life in the modern world. Most think it is possible to be a devout Muslim and still live in a modern society, and many also dismiss the idea that there is an inherent antagonism […]

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    Appendix A: U.S. Muslims — Views on Religion and Society in a Global Context

    In their attitudes toward modern society and their relations with people of other faiths, U.S. Muslims sometimes more closely resemble other Americans than they do Muslims around the world. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, about half of U.S. Muslims say that all (7%) or most (41%) of their close friends are followers […]