Leveraging Social Media and the Mobile Internet in Health Messaging
A synthesis of the Pew Internet Project’s most recent research related to health and the participatory news consumer.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
A synthesis of the Pew Internet Project’s most recent research related to health and the participatory news consumer.
Mobile, social technologies are tapping in to a human need to connect with each other, to share, to lend a helping hand, and to laugh. I’d like to start a conversation about health privacy that includes an open dialogue about the risks and benefit…
Free survey data about the impact of the internet, going back to the year 2000.
A conversation with Susannah Fox and Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired Magazine, at the Pew Research Center in Washington DC.
An FCC survey finds that 78% of adults are internet users and 65% of adults have home broadband connections.
Susannah Fox delivered a guest lecture for a history of medicine course regarding the role of the internet in health care over the last 15 years.
Susannah Fox will provide data on the current internet population, with a particular focus on health communication, wireless adoption, social media, and implications for public health planning.
38% of adults age 65 and older go online, a significantly lower rate of adoption than the general population (74%).
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others–up from 11% in April.
The FDA should hear about the reality of the information marketplace, which is increasingly mobile and social, not about the past failings of consumers to check the source and date of health information online.
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