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    Internet Use by Region in the U.S.

    Internet penetration is not spread evenly over all regions, and users in different regions do different things online.

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    Ethics and Big Data

    Lee Rainie, Director of Internet, Science, and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, presented this material on December 12, 2016 to a working group at the National Academy of Sciences. The group is exploring how to think about creating an academic discipline around ‘data science.’

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    Millennials’ Judgments About Recent Trends Not So Different

    Opinions of older adults tend to differ more from the other age groups than the views of those of the youngest generation when it comes to embracing technological advances and societal change. Two issues, the acceptance of homosexuality and tattoos, create especially large generational gaps.

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    Appendix A: Extended Literature Review

    What role might new technologies play in how core networks have changed in the past 20 years? Other scholarship provides some support for the notion that mobile phone use may play a role in a trend toward smaller, less diverse core networks. At the same time, there is less evidence to suggest that internet use […]

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    News Consumption 2010: Portable, Participatory and Personal

    This talk highlights how today’s changing information ecology, specifically the increasing use of social media and mobile technologies, has altered the way consumers access and interact with news and information.

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    Teens and Mobile Phones

    Text messaging rises sharply among teens and is now their most frequent form of communication with friends; 72% of those ages 12-17 now are texters and the average young text user exchanges 1,500 texts per month.

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    MyHealth, Circa 2007

    Tagging, blogging, and social networking sites allow internet users to search for, catalog, and disseminate information.

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    The gender gap in AI

    Does gender factor into how people use and think about artificial intelligence (AI)? In some ways, it does. Men report using chatbots more regularly than women and are more likely to turn to them for a variety of things, including work. Women, on the other hand, are more skeptical about AI, including how it will impact […]