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    Part 5: Witnessing Harassment Online

    Nearly three quarters of internet usersโ€”73%โ€”have witnessed online harassment. Offensive name-calling and purposeful embarrassment were the most common types of harassment people witnessed. Respondents were asked if they had witnessed the following types of harassment online: 60% of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called offensive names 53% said they witnessed efforts to […]

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    Part 1: Experiencing Online Harassment

    Forty percent of adult internet users[2. numoffset=”2″ Some 89% of American adults are now internet users.] have personally experienced some variety of online harassment. In this study, online harassment was defined as having had at least one of six incidents personally occur: 27% of internet users have been called offensive names 22% have had someone […]

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    Mexican President Peรฑa Nietoโ€™s Ratings Slip with Economic Reform

    Mexican President Enrique Peรฑa Nieto has been praised internationally for his ambitious reforms of everything from the energy sector to education to telecommunications, but a new Pew Research Center survey in Mexico finds that domestically his positive image is faltering and a key component of his political agenda โ€“ economic reform โ€“ is decidedly unpopular.

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    In search of libertarians

    About one-in-ten Americans (11%) describe themselves as libertarian and know what the term means.

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    Part 2: The Online Environment

    As previous work from Pew Research has shown, most technology users feel positively connected to the services and devices that connect them to others. It is not, however, a relationship without tension. Many users sometimes feel stressed by their constant connectivity (for example when their cell phones distract or interrupt them) or vulnerable when they […]

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    Brazilian Discontent Ahead of World Cup

    The national mood in Brazil is grim, following a year in which more than a million people have taken to the streets of major cities across the country to protest corruption, rising inflation and a lack of government investment in public services such as education, health care and public transportation, among other things. A new […]

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    Above-and-Beyond Responses: Part 2

    A range of input by some respondents covered additional aspects of the issues. โ€˜The emotional climate around privacy and security will only increaseโ€™ Mike Liebhold, senior researcher and distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future, wrote, โ€œThere will be many political, technological, and service efforts to improve privacy but, likely, even greater efforts by […]

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    Above-and-Beyond Responses: Part 2

    A range of input by some respondents covered ground not related to the themes highlighted above. Put this in perspectiveโ€”many things are worse and could have a more devastating effect, including natural disasters and the impacts of rapid online financial transactions Ben Shneiderman, professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, wrote, “Cyberattacks will […]

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    Appendix C: Methodology

    Overview The estimates presented in this report for the unauthorized immigrant population are based on a residual estimation methodology that compares a demographic estimate of the number of immigrants residing legally in the country with the total number of immigrants as measured by a surveyโ€”either the American Community Survey or the March Supplement to the […]

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