Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
As part of our exploration of the new ecosystem of books, we asked respondents in our December 2011 survey about the way they discover books and then obtain them. We found that personal recommendations dominate book recommendations. At the same time, logarithms on websites, bookstore staffers, and librarians are in the picture, too. In our […]
Hampton, K.N., L.S. Goulet, L. Rainie, and K. Purcell, Social Networking Sites and Our Lives: How People’s Trust, Personal Relationships, and Civic and Political Involvement are Connected to Their Use of Social Networking Sites and Other Technologies. 2011, Pew Research: Washington, D.C. Available from: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2011/Technology-and-social-networks.aspx. Barabasi, A.L., Linked: The New Science of Networks. 2002, Cambridge, […]
Overall cell ownership steady since 2009 According to the Pew Internet Project’s 2011 teen survey, three quarters (77%) of teens have a cell phone, a figure that is similar to the 75% of teens who owned a cell phone in September 2009 and up dramatically from the 45% of teens who were cell owners in […]
For the past few decades, telephone survey researchers have faced increasing difficulty contacting Americans and getting reluctant people to cooperate. Surveyors also face the challenge of adequately covering the U.S. population at a time of growing cell phone use. More than a third of households can be reached only on a cell phone, thus making […]
Texting volume is up while the frequency of voice calling is down. About one in four teens say they own smartphones.
A survey of Advanced Placement and National Writing Project teachers finds that teens’ research habits are changing in the digital age
The 2012 presidential campaign is drawing significantly less interest than the 2008 campaign from Democrats and younger people. According to the Pew Research Center’s News Interest Index surveys over the course of January, 30% of Democrats have been following election news very closely, down from 42% in January 2008, during the primary contest between Barack […]