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    Section 2: Organizational Technology Use

    The digital technology revolutions that have swept over the American population have affected arts organizations as well. Alongside advances in computing, broadband connectivity, and mobile phones has been the development of social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, photo-sharing services like Flickr and Instagram, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, check-in apps like Foursquare, […]

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    Introducing Fact Tank

    Welcome to Fact Tank, a new, real-time platform from the Pew Research Center, dedicated to finding news in the numbers.

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    Methodology: In Social Media and Opinion Pages, Newtown Sparks Calls for Gun Reform

    https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2012/12/20/social-media-and-opinion-pages-newtown-sparks-calls-gun-reform/ This special report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on media reaction to the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut uses data derived from four different methodologies. Data regarding the tone of conversation on social media (Twitter and blogs) were derived with a combination of PEJ’s traditional media research methods, based on […]

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    A mirror and a window

    How were you first introduced to the Pew Research Center? Do you share our research with other people? If so, how?

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    Section 5: Technology and Organizational Function

    While this survey was designed to collect information about arts organizations’ public-facing participation in technology and social media, it also gathered some benchmark data about how they are infusing technology into their staffing, training, and workflow, and how they are normalizing its use through new guidelines and organizational procedures. Staffing and hiring Eighty-eight percent of […]

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    Arguments in the News Coverage

    In order to understand the language and ideas used by supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage, Pew Research tracked the presence of specific arguments in news stories and commentary. Supporters largely framed the issue as a question of civil rights and equality. In the main news media studied, nearly half (49%) of the stories on […]

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    How Pew Research conducted its national LGBT community survey

    Why did Pew Research decide to conduct an LGBT-specific survey? We know from our surveys of the general public that there’s been a sharp increase in support for same-sex marriage and in societal acceptance of homosexuality over the past decade. Of course, we’re on the cusp of an important historical and cultural moment with the […]

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    Arab Spring Adds to Global Restrictions on Religion

    Pew Research’s fourth major report on global restrictions on religion finds that the share of countries with high or very high restrictions on religion rose from 37% in 2010 to 40% in 2011. The Middle East and North Africa continued to have the highest levels of restrictions in the year when much of the Arab Spring uprisings occurred, with social hostilities involving religion increasing markedly and government restrictions remaining high.

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    Columbia Herald – A Culture of Innovation

    For a while, the 164-year-old Columbia Daily Herald-serving a small Tennessee city 50 miles south of Nashville-had been insulated from the worst of the economic ills that have battered larger daily newspapers. But in recent years, the recession has hit the community of 35,000 hard and the paper has suffered.  For publisher Mark Palmer-who knows, […]