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    About the Media Consumption Survey Data

    The media consumption report draws on a series of large national surveys conducted since 1994. The project was initiated by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press in 1994 and continued by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press since 1996. Over this period, 10 surveys have been conducted, […]

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    Politics on Social Networking Sites

    Campaign and policy-related material on SNS plays a modest role in influencing most users’ views & political activities. Democrats & liberals are the most likely to say the sites have impact and are important.

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    Latino? Hispanic Neither? A Conversation on Identity

    The Pew Hispanic Center’s recent report finding that most Hispanics don’t embrace the terms “Hispanic” or “Latino” drew comments from hundreds of people and was the subject of scores of newspaper and website articles. The Center has invited journalists, scholars and civic leaders to weigh in with commentaries, and the public to share their views on Facebook.

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    Facebook: A Profile of its ’Friends’

    For years, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been polling people who use social media, asking how they use it and what they get out of it. The results paint an interesting picture of what kind of people use sites such as Facebook, who they are connected to and how they manage their privacy.

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    News in a networked world

    Lee Rainie will discuss the Project’s latest findings about how people use the internet, smartphones, and social media tools to get news, share news, and create news.

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    The Future of Big Data

    While many see promise in the future of data analysis, some fear that work with gigantic stores of information could lead to privacy abuses and mistaken forecasts

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    The Blogosphere Worries about Government Propaganda

    The House passage of the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act led both liberal and conservative bloggers to voice strong concerns that it would pave the way for government influence on domestic public opinion. But they disagreed over who was to blame.