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reportMar 11, 2014

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 […]
reportDec 11, 2013

About this Report

This report is part of a larger research effort by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that is exploring the role libraries play in people’s lives and in their communities. The research is underwritten by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This report contains findings from a nationally representative survey of 6,224 Americans ages […]
reportFeb 20, 2014

Appendix: How to analyze social media networks

See related document at: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2014/02/How-we-analyzed-Twitter-social-media-networks.pdf Resources and references Adamic, Lada A, and Natalie Glance. “The political blogosphere and the 2004 US election: divided they blog.” Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery 21 Aug. 2005: 36-43. Early work documenting polarization in social media through an analysis of networks of blog connections. Andrei Broder, Ravi […]
presentationNov 12, 2013

Books, libraries, and the changing digital landscape

Kathryn Zickuhr will explore not only how libraries are dealing with the changing technological environment, but also the larger context of Americans’ reading and library habits, and what they expect from libraries in the future.
reportMar 11, 2014

The Gurus Speak

Among the experts who contributed to this project were some of the most prominent Internet analysts of our generation. Here we highlight the predictions of some of the people most deeply involved in shaping our digital present. New business models, Internet voting, privacy, MOOCs Vint Cerf, Google vice president and chief Internet evangelist, predicted, “There […]
presentationOct 29, 2013

The New Library Patron

Library patrons and non-patrons: Who they are, what their information needs are, what kind of technology they use, and how libraries can meet the varying needs of their patrons.
presentationOct 21, 2013

Libraries and communities

what types of services Americans value in their libraries and what additional services they would like their libraries to offer.
reportMar 11, 2014

Predicting the future on the Web’s 25th anniversary

Asked to predict how technology will change over the next decade, hundreds of experts agree that trends now underway will make the internet more important even as it becomes less visible in daily life.
presentationNov 4, 2013

Reading, writing, and research in the digital age

Kathryn Zickuhr discussed Pew Research’s data on reading, writing, and research in the digital age at the edUi 2013 plenary talk.
reportJan 6, 2014

Methods

The Pew Research Center Library Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and the Gates Foundation, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 6,224 people ages 16 and older living in the United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (nLL=3,122) and cell phone (nC=3,102, including 1,588 without a […]