Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
While community attachment and local voting show a consistent relationship with local news habits, other types of qualities that one might expect to be associated with these habits show more mixed relationships. How active people are in local groups and political activities, for example, corresponds primarily with their interest in and intake of local news, […]
The internet was not built with trust-building in mind, and about a quarter of these experts predicted that there are a number of threats that will be hard to defeat. Some spoke of the role of criminals and trolls. Others referred to corporate behavior and governments’ motives leading to the privacy invasions, surveillance and data […]
Some 15% of these respondents are not at all confident that the Internet of Things will be safe enough to command trust among users. They argue that a number of the problems mentioned elsewhere in this report will be severe enough that some people will retreat from super-connected life. They particularly stress how key systems […]
How social media users see, share and discuss race and the rise of hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter
Young adults follow the news less closely, and they have more negative attitudes about the news media. But they are more likely than their elders to get news online. Those ages 18-29 are less interested in local and national news, and they discuss the news at lower rates compared with those older than them. They […]
Digital news continues to evolve, pushed by a variety of recent innovations. Here are 10 key findings that show how these shifts are reshaping Americans’ news habits.
Overall, those most engaged in civic life tend to also be the most tapped into local news, but an examination of five aspects of civic life and their relationships to three areas of local news habits finds that attachment to one’s community and regular voting in local elections connect most strongly to local news habits. […]
A majority of Americans get news on social media, including 18% who do so often. News plays a varying role across the nine social networking sites studied.
The expert predictions reported here about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to one of eight questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between July 1 and Aug. 12, 2016. This is the seventh Future of the […]
While many Americans get news from social media, few social media news users are heavily engaged with news there. About a quarter of social networking news consumers (26%) often click on links to news stories on social media. But only 16% often “like” news stories and fewer than that often comment on or discuss news […]
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