In U.S. and UK, Globalization Leaves Some Feeling ‘Left Behind’ or ‘Swept Up’
Focus groups held across the two nations reveal the degree to which Americans and Britons see common challenges to local and national identity.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Within the online space, many Western Europeans get news through social media. Facebook is by far the most commonly used social media site for news. Compared with other Western European countries, getting news from social media is less common in France. Fewer than half of French adults (45%) get news from social media sites, while […]
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 […]
Sono Shah is an associate director on Pew Research Center’s Data Labs team. He focuses on the application of computational social science methods to a variety of topics around the center, including race and ethnicity as well as political rhetoric. Shah is a contributing author of studies about how Democrats and Republicans behave on Twitter, […]
Emily A. Vogels is a research associate working on internet and technology research at Pew Research Center. Much of her recent work has focused on teen’s digital lives, the tone and tenor of online discourse and the digital divide. She received her PhD in experimental psychology from University of New Brunswick, with a focus on social media […]