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    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 […]

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    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 […]

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    1. Themes about the next 50 years of life online

    When the 530 participants in this study shared wide-ranging insights about the future, most of their responses were tied to hopes and concerns over human evolution in light of technological change. A share of their comments referred to technological advances such as brain-computer interfaces, virtual immersive experiences that will teach and entertain users, pervasive connectivity […]

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    About this canvassing of experts

    The expert predictions reported here about the impact of the internet over the next 50 years came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between July 4, 2018, and Aug. 6, 2018. This is the 10th Future of the Internet study […]

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    4. The internet will continue to make life better

    A large share of respondents predict enormous potential for improved quality of life over the next 50 years for most individuals thanks to internet connectivity, although many said the benefits of a wired world are not likely to be evenly distributed. Andrew Tutt, an expert in law and author of “An FDA for Algorithms,” said, […]

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    3. Certain keywords in video titles and descriptions were associated with more views

    To focus on words that represented widespread and general topics, rather than names or terms specific to particular channels, researchers collected words that were mentioned in the titles of at least 100 different videos published by at least 10 different channels (353 words met this threshold).[7. Some relatively uninformative or ambiguous words were excluded from […]

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    Who pays for local news in the U.S.?

    While few Americans pay for local news, some people are more likely to do so than others – and most believe their local news outlets are doing well financially.