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    World Wide Web Timeline

    A timeline of the major milestones and small moments that have shaped the Web since 1989.

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    Couples, the Internet, and Social Media

    The internet, cell phones and social media have become key actors in the lives of many American couples. Technology is a source of support and communication as well as tension, and couples say it has both good and bad impacts on their relationships.

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    13 data milestones for 2013

    In the course of conducting public opinion surveys and demographic analyses, the Pew Research Center found a wide range of data milestones, breakthroughs, peaks and valleys in 2013.

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    Medium Engagement

    Medium engagement groups make up almost 40% of the overall U.S. population, and often mirror the general population in their habits, views, and demographics. This is especially true of the larger of the two groups, the Solid Center, who make up 30% of Americans ages 16 and older. The other medium engagement group, Print Traditionalists, […]

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    Audience Routes: Direct, Search & Facebook

    This study focused primarily on the three main paths internet users take to get to the 26 most popular news websites: Direct visitors who either type a URL into the browser or use a bookmark; those who come through a query on a search engine; and those who get news by following links they see […]

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    The More-Hopeful Theses

    This report reflects the responses to the sixth Future of the Internet survey, a canvassing of experts about their attitudes on the likely future impacts of evolving communications networks. Experts’ remarks in the previous five surveys generally expressed enthusiasm about the potential benefits of technological evolution. In this, the 2014 survey, their optimistic responses are […]

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    Chapter 3: Finances, Social Trends and Technology

    Economic optimism Coming of age during the country’s deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression has made it much more difficult for Millennials to find their financial footing. And they are still dealing with the fallout from the recession and sluggish recovery. The unemployment rate remains high for this generation—especially those ages 18 to 24, […]

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    Low Engagement

    The three low engagement groups in our typology—Not For Me, Young and Restless, and Rooted and Roadblocked—fall at the farthest end of the spectrum of library users. Unlike members of the medium engagement groups, who generally report being moderately active in their library habits, only about a third of the low engagement users have used […]

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    Additional Analysis

    Creators Posting original photos and videos online has increased significantly in the past year. Half of internet users post original photos online, while a quarter post videos they have taken themselves. Taken together, 54% of internet users are online image “creators.” Among internet users, young adults ages 18-29 are particularly likely to post pictures they […]

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