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    State of the News Media 2014

    In many ways, 2013 and early 2014 brought a level of energy to the news industry not seen for a long time. Even as challenges of the past several years continue and new ones emerge, the activities this year have created a new sense of optimism – or perhaps hope – for the future of American journalism.

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    A Demographic Portrait of Younger Americans

    Our surveys have confirmed that the demographic composition of those ages 16-29 is different from older generations. Our major 2013 survey found that younger generations are much more racially and ethnically diverse. They differ in other ways as well, particularly in terms of where they live and their general life stage. And though we cannot […]

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    Selected Age Break Tables

    Below are selected age break tables for internet access, social networking usage, and cell phone and smartphone ownership, all based on total sample. Significant differences are represented by bolded figures.

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    Greater Technology Use Linked to Higher Per Capita Income

    Technology usage is strongly correlated with national income across the countries surveyed. Countries with a higher GDP per capita generally have higher rates of smartphone ownership and internet and social networking use, while poorer countries tend to have lower rates of technology usage. Mouse over the countries below to reveal technology use and GDP per […]

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    World Wide Web Timeline

    A timeline of the major milestones and small moments that have shaped the Web since 1989.

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    Part 1: In-depth Analysis: Research Method and Strategy

    To understand the nature of Twitter conversations, the Pew Research Center Internet Project joined with researchers at the Social Media Research Foundation, a group of scholars whose mission is to support the creation and application of open tools, open data, and open scholarship related to social media. The discovery of these six archetypical network structures emerged over several […]

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    Predicting the future on the Web’s 25th anniversary

    Asked to predict how technology will change over the next decade, hundreds of experts agree that trends now underway will make the internet more important even as it becomes less visible in daily life.

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