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Introduction As the Child Online Protection Act is litigated and other potential legislative remedies aimed at keeping children safe online are considered, the universe of online teens and families continues to expand. The range of tactics and tools they employ to monitor and moderate online access to potentially harmful content also continues to grow. Parents […]
Only some searchers rely on search engines. A recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that while growing numbers of internet users conduct an increasing variety of activities online, from looking up phone numbers to buying tickets to getting the news, they are not integrating their internet use into their everyday […]
Institutions After giving us some personal information in the survey such as their institutional affiliations, the experts were asked the following question, “On a scale of 1-10 with 1 representing no change and 10 representing radical change, please indicate how much change you think the internet will bring to the following institutions or activities in […]
Twenty-six percent of adult internet users in the U.S. have rated a product, service, or person using an online rating system. These systems, also referred to as “reputation systems,” are interactive word-of-mouth networks that assist people in making decisions about which users to trust, or to compare their opinions with the opinions expressed by others. […]
Artists callback survey The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from November 3 to December 7, 2003, among a sample of 809 self-identified artists, 18 and older, who were interviewed in past Tracking surveys. For results based on the total sample, one can […]
The musicians we surveyed are highly wired and engaged online. The data on musicians referenced throughout this section of the report was gathered through a non-random online sample of 2,793 musicians, songwriters and music publishers, recruited via email notices sent to members of various music organizations, through announcements on those organizations’ Web sites and through […]
Ignorance and mistrust of the online prescription drug market may be dispelled by further research and good experiences. Only 4% of Americans have purchased prescription drugs online. A majority of Americans profess fear and mistrust of the online pharmaceutical market. However, there are indications that Americans could change their minds about the safety of online […]
Few respond to email advertisements, but drug spam continues to pile up. A tiny percentage of Rx purchasers say their last trip to an online pharmacy was in response to an email advertisement. Many more internet users have received unsolicited email advertising drugs, however. In October 2003, the Pew Internet Project reported that longtime internet […]