Washington, D.C. (For release at 5 p.m. July 8)—New research by the Pew Internet Project shows that during some of the most turbulent weeks of the Iraq war nearly one quarter of Internet users (24%) went online to view some of most graphic war images that were deemed too gruesome or horrific for newspapers and […]
10:00am-11:30am Washington, D.C. MR. BOB WEINBERG: Friends, we are about to begin the program while you continue to enjoy this delicious luncheon. And the speakers, I’m sure, will be up to the challenge of competing with the clacking of the knives and forks. I’m Bob Weinberg, the president of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers […]
Men pursue and consume the news online more than women do. The popularity of getting news from the Internet has grown over the years, with additional boosts following major news events like September 11 or the start of the Iraq war. Since 2000, when the Pew Internet & American Life Project began tracking participation in […]
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We owe special thanks to Elena Larsen, former Research Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Prior to taking a position at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, Elena was intimately involved in survey design and analysis of the preliminary results. Her expertise was invaluable in shaping this project in its early stages. […]
The composition of the sample Most of the respondents have other jobs in addition to their work as in music. So, the answers reported in this survey come from a poorer and less professional segment of the music community than is often represented in the discussions that have raged around Washington about copyright and downloading. […]
30% of online Americans say the Internet plays a major role in their lives. Thirty percent of Internet users tell us that the Internet plays a major role in how they live their daily lives. When asked about their Internet behaviors, this group we call “major players” describes how they are much more active and […]
This Pew Internet & American Life Project report is based on a random digit dial telephone survey of 2,925 Americans age 18 and over conducted between June 25, 2003 and August 3, 2003. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates and was administered in English. For results based on the total sample, one […]