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reportDec 11, 2019

How Pew Research Center is approaching the 2020 election

As 2020 approaches, here’s a preview of how the Center is approaching the election, both in terms of how we plan to conduct surveys and other studies and what we plan to explore.
reportAug 22, 2019

In Emerging Economies, Smartphone and Social Media Users Have Broader Social Networks

Smartphone users in emerging economies – especially those who use social media – tend to be more exposed to people with different backgrounds and more connected with friends they don’t see in person.
reportAug 22, 2019

2. Social media users more likely to interact with people who are different from them

Social media platforms provide a major avenue for people to connect with friends, relatives and acquaintances they do not see in person on a regular basis. A median of 46% of Facebook users report seeing few or none of their Facebook “friends” in person regularly, while just 31% see most or all of them in […]
reportSep 6, 2019

Sono Shah

Sono Shah is an associate director on Pew Research Center’s Data Labs team. He focuses on the application of computational social science methods to a variety of topics around the center, including race and ethnicity as well as political rhetoric. Shah is a contributing author of studies about how Democrats and Republicans behave on Twitter, […]
reportAug 22, 2019

1. Social activities, information seeking on subjects like health and education top the list of mobile activities

The survey asked mobile phone users about 10 activities they might do on their mobile phones. First, it included four activities that may be social in nature, including: sending text messages, taking pictures or video, posting pictures or videos to social media, and posting thoughts on social media. Second, it asked people whether they have […]
reportApr 21, 2020

U.S. Views of China Increasingly Negative Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Republicans are more negative than Democrats toward China, though unfavorable ratings have climbed among both parties.
reportSep 17, 2019

Exploring the link between European political parties’ ideology and their popularity on Twitter

It can be hard to determine whether parties near the ends of the ideology scale are more popular on the platform than moderate parties.
reportAug 22, 2019

Appendix A: How smartphone and social media use relate to social network diversity

Regularly interacting with people of different religious views is the dichotomous dependent variable, where 1 denotes someone who frequently or occasionally interacts with people who hold different religious views than they do, and 0 means they rarely or never do so. The independent, or predictor, variables include age, gender, education level, income level and whether […]
reportOct 28, 2019

3. Humanity is at a precipice; its future is at stake

The following sections share selections of comments from technology experts and futurists who elaborate on the ways internet use has shaped humanity over the past 50 years and consider the potential future of digital life. They are gathered under broad, overarching ideas, rather than being tied to the specific themes highlighted above. Many of the […]
short readsAug 26, 2019

How we examined public attitudes about the tone of U.S. political debate

We explored how Americans feel about the tenor of debate in the country in a recent major survey about U.S. political disource. Here’s how we did it.

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Search results for: “social media and politics”

How Pew Research Center is approaching the 2020 election

Sono Shah

U.S. Views of China Increasingly Negative Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Exploring the link between European political parties’ ideology and their popularity on Twitter

3. Humanity is at a precipice; its future is at stake

How we examined public attitudes about the tone of U.S. political debate