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    About this canvassing of experts

    The expert predictions reported here about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to one of eight questions asked by the Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted from July 1 to Aug. 12, 2016. This is the seventh “Future of […]

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    Europe still has love for America

    Rising public anger and spread of populism around the Continent has not resulted in return of anti-Americanism.

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    2. How the public reacted on Facebook

    Politicians are increasingly turning to social media to engage directly with their constituents and other members of the public. Unlike press releases, where audience feedback is indirect and difficult to measure, Facebook enables people to react directly to what members of Congress say in the form of likes, comments and shares, providing an easily accessible […]

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    1. Rise in countries with ‘very high’ government restrictions on religion in 2015

    Countries with the most extensive government restrictions on religion Many countries have some form of government restriction on religion, whether it involves policies that favor some groups over others or outright bans on certain worship practices. But each year, a few countries stand out as having particularly extensive restrictions. In 2015, 23 of the 198 […]

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    2. Religious commitment and practices

    By two standard measures of religious observance – how often people pray and how often they attend religious services – Central and Eastern Europeans, on the whole, show modest levels of religious commitment. In none of the countries surveyed do a majority of respondents say they pray daily or attend worship services weekly. In some […]