Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Online teens enjoy new opportunities to create, remix, and share digital content. Thanks to the internet, American teenagers can engage media material and create their own content in ways their parents could not. Today’s online teens live in a world filled with self-authored, customized, and on-demand content, much of which is easily replicated, manipulated, and […]
Introduction Fifty-three percent of home internet users now have a high-speed connection at home, up from 21% of internet users in 2002. Perhaps not surprisingly, people who are less likely to have access at all, such as older Americans, are also less likely to upgrade to broadband once they do get online. Two-thirds of college […]
Half of online teens say they download music. In our 2000 survey of teens and internet use, roughly the same portion, 53% of online teens, reported music downloading. However, the raw size of the online teen population has grown over time such that there are now about 11 million teens who say they download music, […]
Introduction In order to understand the nature of teens’ internet access, we asked: How often do they go online? Where do they usually go online? Do they access the internet from more than one place? What speed is their access? What does home access look like for today’s American teen? In the sections that follow, […]
Introduction: Demographics According to the latest Pew Internet & American Life Project telephone survey fielded in October and November 2004, 87% of American youth aged 12 to 17 go online.[2.numoffset=”2″ Throughout this report, we refer to the age cohort of 12- to-17-year-olds as “teenagers.” The standard telephone surveys conducted by the Pew Internet & American […]
The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.
Most people are confident and say they grasp the major online security concepts, but there are gaps, especially for newcomers to the internet. Despite the computer woes they might have experienced, 61% of internet users are confident that they can keep things like computer viruses, spyware, and adware off of their home computer when they […]