53 Million American Adults are Instant Message Users
Some 42% of online Americans use instant messaging, and 24% of instant messagers say they use IM more frequently than email.
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Some 42% of online Americans use instant messaging, and 24% of instant messagers say they use IM more frequently than email.
The survey polled users’ participation in 18 everyday activities that belonged to four clearcut categories. To assemble a good list of activities, we followed insights gained from previous research and divided online activities into four categories: information seeking; communications; transactions; and entertainment. We chose several examples for each category. These examples are not meant to […]
Introduction Previous polling by the Pew Internet & American Life Project during times of high national tension or major news events, like September 11 or the start of the Iraq war, has documented some reasons that people are prompted to turn to the Internet and even adapt it for new purposes. Following September 11, Internet […]
New research from the Pew Internet Project and the New Millennium Research Project shows that 34 million Americans have heard of VoIP and 4 million have considered getting it at home.
Men pursue and consume the news online more than women do. The popularity of getting news from the Internet has grown over the years, with additional boosts following major news events like September 11 or the start of the Iraq war. Since 2000, when the Pew Internet & American Life Project began tracking participation in […]
More Internet users are going to e-gov sites than ever. To explore in more detail what Internet users do when they go online for e-government, this survey asked, as the Pew Internet Project has done in the past, whether Internet users had ever looked for information online from a local, state, or federal government Web […]
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. […]
WASHINGTON — The recording industry campaign against those who download and swap music online has made an impact on several major fronts, but the number of Americans downloading music and sharing files online has increased, according to the most recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Project’s national phone survey of […]