Little Going-In American Enthusiasm for the World Cup
Just roughly a quarter of Americans said they were excited about the 2010 World Cup in a survey administered prior to the start of the tournament.
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Part 4: The Nielsen Apps Playbook
Apps and app users As part of its ongoing research into telecom trends, the Nielsen Company conducts a quarterly tracking survey of more than 80,000 mobile subscribers age 13 and older sampled from a combination of online panels and augmented with listed Hispanic telephone sample. Among other measures, the Mobile Insights survey identifies mobile subscribers […]
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Online Video Watching and Downloading
Who is watching and downloading online video? Seven in ten adult internet users (69%), or roughly half of all U.S. adults (52%) have used the internet to watch or download video.[1. In a 2007 survey, Pew Internet found that 57% of online adults reported watching one of 11 different types of video online. See “Online […]
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The Oil Saga Spills into Social Media
The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico became a hot topic in blogs and on Twitter last week, with the discussion focused on a range of storylines. At the same time, two subjects that had generated little attention in recent weeks—the economy and the war in Afghanistan—also drew significant interest. On YouTube, a Congressman’s angry response to being filmed drew almost 2.5 million views.
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Gulf Disaster Again Dominates the News
With the oil still gushing, BP making new efforts to stanch the spill and the Obama Administration taking a more aggressive line toward the energy company, the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico accounted for a third of last week’s news coverage. No other story came close although a deadly encounter on a boat headed for the Gaza Strip finished as the No. 2 subject.
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Public Reacts Positively To Extensive Gulf Coverage
Summary of Findings While the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has accounted for an overwhelming proportion of recent news coverage, most Americans say the press is giving the right amount of attention to the still-unfolding disaster. The latest News Interest Index survey conducted June 17-20 among 1,009 adults by the Pew Research Center […]
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Oil Leads Again as Stocks, Spies and Politics Contend for Coverage
The environmental disaster in the Gulf continued to draw media attention last week, though far below the levels it once commanded. Coverage of the politics surrounding the mid-term elections edged out a mixed bag of economic news for the No. 2 slot. And an NBA superstar proved to be one of the week’s biggest newsmakers.
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Event Transcript: Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe
George Mason University Professor Peter Mandaville, Dilwar Hussain of the Islamic Foundation, and Maha Azzam of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House discussed key findings of a Pew Forum study containing profiles of some of the oldest, largest and most influential Muslim groups – from the Muslim Brotherhood to mystical Sufi orders and networks of religious scholars.
