Americans and Their Cell Phones
Mobile devices help people solve problems and stave off boredom, but create some new challenges and annoyances
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Internet Use in the U.S.
Internet Access by Age, Health Status Let’s map this mountain, starting with some bedrock data. This is the known world of internet use in the U.S. which the Pew Research Center has been tracking for over 10 years. Think of us as your GPS for navigating the online world. In order to get an accurate […]
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Smartphones as an internet appliance
Nearly nine in ten smartphone owners (87%) use their phones to access the internet or email, with 78% of these users saying that they go online using their phone on a typical day.[4.numoffset=”4″ Just as our standard definition of an “internet user” includes those who use the internet or email, our definition of a “smartphone […]
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Main Report
Overview of findings As online college courses have become increasingly prevalent, the general public and college presidents offer different assessments of their educational value. Just three-in-ten American adults (29%) say a course taken online provides an equal educational value to one taken in a classroom. By contrast, fully half of college presidents (51%) say online […]
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Overview of smartphone adoption
In its first standalone measure of smartphone ownership,[1. In past surveys (in 2006 and 2007) we asked respondents two separate questions: “Do you have a cell phone?” and “Do you have a Blackberry, Palm or other personal digital assistant?” In more recent surveys we have combined all cell phones into a single question: “Do you […]