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featureMar 7, 2019

Compare the rates of social media platform and messaging app usage in 11 countries around the world

Facebook and WhatsApp are the most widely used social media platforms and messaging applications in 11 countries around the world.
reportMar 7, 2019

Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies

Access to mobile phones and social media is common across emerging economies. People around the world see certain benefits from these technologies, yet there are also concerns about their impact on children.
reportSep 5, 2019

More Than Half of U.S. Adults Trust Law Enforcement to Use Facial Recognition Responsibly

The ability of governments and law enforcement agencies to monitor the public using facial recognition was once the province of dystopian science fiction. But modern technology is increasingly bringing versions of these scenarios to life.
short readsJun 24, 2019

Couples who meet online are more diverse than those who meet in other ways, largely because they’re younger

Couples who meet online are more likely than those who meet offline to be diverse by some measures – but this can be explained by age.
reportMar 26, 2019

Part Two: Taking a closer look at local news attitudes and behaviors within individual local areas

Residents of two areas – San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX and Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI – see their local news media as notably more connected to the community than U.S. adults overall, and they also give their local media better ratings. Residents of the other two – Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA and Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN – show more negative attitudes and lower interest in local news.
reportMay 23, 2019

Men Appear Twice as Often as Women in News Photos on Facebook

Photos that exclusively show men make up the majority of photos that show people; representational differences persist across topics
short readsMar 15, 2019

How focus groups helped inform our survey about technology use in emerging economies

With global survey research, it’s important to understand what people are thinking about the subject we’re studying. Focus groups help address this.
reportMay 13, 2019

Acknowledgments

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Aaron Smith, Associate Director, Research Laura Silver, Senior Researcher Courtney Johnson, Research Associate Kyle Taylor, Research Analyst Jingjing Jiang, Research Analyst Sara Atske, Assistant Digital Producer Monica Anderson, Senior Researcher James Bell, Vice President, Global Strategy Peter Bell, Design […]
reportJun 5, 2019

An update on our research into trust, facts and democracy

A little over a year ago, Pew Research Center decided to intensify its research focus on the theme of trust, facts and democracy. As part of this initiative, the Center has published more than 30 pieces of related research over the past 12 months.
short readsFeb 13, 2019

7 things we’ve learned about computer algorithms

Pew Research Center released several reports in 2018 that explored the role and meaning of algorithms in people’s lives today.

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Compare the rates of social media platform and messaging app usage in 11 countries around the world

More Than Half of U.S. Adults Trust Law Enforcement to Use Facial Recognition Responsibly

Part Two: Taking a closer look at local news attitudes and behaviors within individual local areas

How focus groups helped inform our survey about technology use in emerging economies

An update on our research into trust, facts and democracy

7 things we’ve learned about computer algorithms