The recurring theme of “reinvention” in American government has in recent years been fueled by the desire to employ networked communication technologies to enhance government’s capacities. Electronic government, or e-government, has come to refer not just to Web pages of government agencies and government officials using email, but also to the Internet’s transactional and interactive […]
55% of Internet Users Have High-Speed Either at Home or Work Broadband Internet access is increasingly being woven into the work and home lives of Internet users in the United States. According to the February 2004 survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55% of American Internet users have access to broadband either […]
WASHINGTON — The recording industry campaign against those who download and swap music online has made an impact on several major fronts, but the number of Americans downloading music and sharing files online has increased, according to the most recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Project’s national phone survey of […]
More Internet users are going to e-gov sites than ever. To explore in more detail what Internet users do when they go online for e-government, this survey asked, as the Pew Internet Project has done in the past, whether Internet users had ever looked for information online from a local, state, or federal government Web […]
WASHINGTON — Nearly two-thirds of online Americans use the Internet for faith-related reasons. The 64% of Internet users who perform spiritual and religious activities online represent nearly 82 million Americans. Among the most popular and important spiritually-related online activities measured in a new national survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project: 38% of […]
New Pew Research Center to be ‘Fact Tank’ for Independent, Nonpartisan Research, Polling & News Philadelphia, PA — As part of its long-term commitment to informing the public with credible, timely research, The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today it is establishing a new nonprofit subsidiary to house all of the major information projects it supports—one […]