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The Internet’s toehold in everyday life is just beginning. The Pew Internet & American Life Project findings here suggest that the reach of Internet use into everyday life is broad but shallow. That is, while many users go online to do many things, the extent of their use is relatively limited. Most Internet users will […]
Sept. 11 changed the public’s foreign policy priorities. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, concern over future terrorist attacks dominated public concerns and many traditional foreign policy goals assumed a lower priority. Now, nearly three years later, the public’s priorities have shifted again. While protecting the U.S. from terrorist attacks remains the top priority, […]
Most Internet users are more likely to do everyday activities in the traditional offline ways than online. Two different measures indicate that Internet users who do any given activity in their everyday lives are more likely to do that activity offline than online. First, we find that among Internet users who sometimes do a given […]
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Washington, D.C. Speakers: Michael Barone, Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report; Co-Author, The Almanac of American Politics E.J. Dionne, Jr., Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Syndicated Columnist, The Washington Post Andrew Kohut, President, Pew Research Center Moderator: Luis Lugo, Director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life LUIS LUGO: Good […]
Noon – 2 p.m. Westminster, London, England Speakers: The Rt. Rev. Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Archbishop, Anglican Church of Nigeria The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop, Episcopal Church USA Dr. David Martin, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics (Emeritus) Moderator: Dr. Timothy Samuel Shah, Senior Fellow in Religion & International Affairs, The Pew […]
By Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel and Amy Mitchell While their worries are changing, the problems that journalists see with their profession in many ways seem more intractable than they did a few years ago. News people feel better about some elements of their work. But they fear more than ever that the economic behavior of […]
Candidates, political organizations and the news media are paying greater attention to Latino voters in 2004 than in any previous election year.
The composition of the sample Most of the respondents have other jobs in addition to their work as in music. So, the answers reported in this survey come from a poorer and less professional segment of the music community than is often represented in the discussions that have raged around Washington about copyright and downloading. […]
Many seniors have no interest in going online. Those who do want to get access face significant barriers. Eight in ten off-line seniors do not think they will ever go online.[9.numoffset=”9″ Lenhart, 2003.] They often live lives far removed from the Internet, know few people who use email or surf the Web, and cannot imagine […]