Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world
Most bloggers focus on personal experiences, not politics
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Most bloggers focus on personal experiences, not politics
A survey of technology thinkers and stakeholders shows they believe the internet will continue to spread in a “flattening” and improving world. There are many, though, who think major problems will accompany technology advances by 2020. A predictions…
Teens and Generation Y (age 18-28) are significantly more likely than older users to send and receive instant messages, play online games, create blogs, download music, and search for school information.
Broadband adoption is creating a new divide among internet users.
91% of internet users have changed their online behavior for fear of becoming victims. Computer programs that secretly plant themselves on people’s computers and then monitor users’ online behavior or hijack their browsers have become a scourge.
79% of internet users have searched online for health information, with increasing interest in diet, fitness, and drug information
The nature of teens’ online activities changes with age and access. In the same way that age matters when looking at patterns of internet use among different generations of adults, teens continue to demonstrate different phases of internet use as they grow older and new technologies become available to them. Some of these changes in […]
The Web is increasingly seen as an information resource. Previous research by the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that as people gain more experience using the internet, their use becomes more serious.[2.numoffset=”2″ Horrigan, John and Lee Rainie. “Getting Serious Online: As Americans Gain Experience, They Use the Web More at Work, Write Emails […]
Introduction The Pew Internet & American Life Project’s previous research has suggested that online health seekers were often motivated to search out information that relates to actions they might need to take for specific medical issues in their lives.[1. Fox, Susannah and Deborah Fallows, “Internet Health Resources: Health searches and email have become more commonplace, […]