The Rise of Networked Individuals (Webcast)
Lee Rainie will discuss the latest research findings on people’s use of social media and how technology has affected some of the ways people learn, make decisions, and offer social supports to others.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Lee Rainie will discuss the latest research findings on people’s use of social media and how technology has affected some of the ways people learn, make decisions, and offer social supports to others.
Excerpts from material contributed by the Pew Internet Project to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism “State of the News Media” report.
In this talk to medical librarians, Lee Rainie covered how e-patients and their caregivers have become a force in the medical world. In addition, he looked at the many ways that e-patients are using the internet to research and respond to their he…
Introduction In the past few years, the growing number of Americans living in households without landline telephones has challenged survey researchers to develop a variety of approaches to deal with this non-coverage issue. One approach is to add interviews over the cell phone to traditional random digit dial surveys of landline telephones.1 Adding cell phone […]
48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year.
36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia
60 million Americans say that the internet helped them make big decisions or negotiate their way through major episodes in their lives.
Only 16% of single American adults are actively looking for dating partners.
The average American internet user is not sure what podcasting is, what an RSS feed does, or what the term “phishing†means.
One in 12 adult American internet users participates in sports fantasy leagues online.
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