More than eight-in-ten Americans get news from digital devices
More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet “often” or “sometimes.”
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About this canvassing of experts
This report shares the second of two sets of results emerging from a series of questions posed in the 13th “Future of the Internet” canvassing by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. The first report covered expert responses to the question of whether online spaces can be improved by 2035. In […]
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6. Americans differ by news diet on which Biden administration issues get too much coverage, which get too little
The survey asked respondents whether five different priorities of the Biden White House are getting too much attention, too little attention or the right amount of attention from the news media as a whole during the early days of the administration. The COVID-19 pandemic is the only issue that a majority of Americans (58%) say […]
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Acknowledgments
This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Laura Silver, Senior ResearcherKat Devlin, Research AssociateChristine Huang, Research Analyst Sara Atske, Associate Digital ProducerJames Bell, Vice President, Global StrategyNick Bertoni, Senior Panel ManagerAlexandra Castillo, Research MethodologistAidan Connaughton, Research AssistantStefan S. Cornibert, Communications Manager Claudia Deane, Vice President, ResearchCarroll Doherty, […]
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2. Characterizing people’s most recent online harassment experience
In order to gain a more detailed understanding of the daily realities of online harassment, the 41% of adults who have been targeted online were asked a series of questions about their most recent experience. These questions cover everything from the behaviors involved to how upsetting they may have found the experience. This new survey finds […]
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3. The promise and pitfalls of using passive data to measure online news consumption
Given the challenges of survey research detailed above, it is worth considering other approaches to measuring news consumption – especially when it comes to getting news online. One possibility is so-called “passive” data, in which respondents’ online activity is recorded automatically by a computer tracker. Several vendors now offer these types of panels: They recruit […]
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3. Cross-cutting and novel statements
A number of the respondents wrote about cross-cutting themes, introduced novel ideas or shared thoughts that were not widely mentioned by others. This section features a selection of that material. Questions about AI figure into the grandest challenges humans face Michael G. Dyer, professor emeritus of computer science at UCLA, expert in natural language processing, […]
