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    Methodology

    This study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and Social & Demographic Trends analyzed news coverage of African Americans during a 12-month time period, February 16, 2009 – February 15, 2010.  The analysis is based on coding conducted as part of PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index (NCI). During this period, […]

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    Understanding the Participatory News Consumer

    An overwhelming majority of Americans get their news from multiple news platforms. Which media sectors do people in the U.S rely on most? How has the internet and mobile technology changed the way people consume news? A joint PEJ-Pew Internet survey examines how internet and cell phone users have transformed news into a social experience.

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    Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults

    While the overall internet population expanded continuously over the past decade, Millennials continue to be the most likely age group to go online (93% now use the internet). However, their use of blogs, Twitter and social networking sites has changed in recent years.

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    Charging for Content Elicits Strong Objections among Bloggers

    Free versus pay? When it comes to music, bloggers last week strongly championed free. On Twitter, strong views over privacy issues surfaced when Google released its new social networking feature, Google Buzz. And a conversation between Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly attracted over a million views on YouTube.

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    State of the News Media 2010

    Declines in news audience, revenue, reporting – and a grim picture for economic models for online news. From PEJ’s annual State of the News Media report.

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    The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future

    Main findings One of the long-running hopes of technology supporters is that the internet and cell phones will bring positive change to institutions of all kinds. This tension pair was designed to assess those hopes. While the largely pro-technology group of respondents expressed overall enthusiasm for the change they hope will come to all kinds […]

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    Millennials, Media and Information

    At a conference at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, Pew Research Center analysts and outside experts discussed research findings about the Millennial generation, the American teens and twenty-somethings now making the passage into adulthood. In this second of three sessions experts on media and technology examine how Millennials are seeking, sharing and creating information.

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    Part One: Introduction

    How Americans use government websites On Barack Obama’s first full day in office, the administration released an executive order establishing an Open Government Directive. The order offered a vision for government organized around three principles: Government should be transparent, with information about agency operations and decisions available to the public online. Government should be participatory, […]