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    Trends in Online Government

    Senior Research Specialist Aaron Smith discussed the Pew Internet Project’s findings related to e-government at Digital Government Institute’s annual conference.

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    As 2010 Ends, Bloggers Get Wonky on the Economy

    Last week the economy—or one nuanced element of it—led bloggers’ conversation. And the No. 2 topic was a famous athlete’s domestic situation. Meanwhile news (and rumors) about the iPad topped a tech-heavy news agenda on Twitter.

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    When Technology Makes Headlines

    The mainstream media offer the American public a divided view of how information technology influences society, according to a new PEJ study. Messages such as technology making life easier often vie with concerns about privacy and safety. How do the media portray technology? Which companies get the most coverage? Do social media and blogs treat the subject differently than traditional media? A year-long study of technology coverage answers these and other questions.

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    Mobile Location Sharing

    Among internet users, 4% use a service such as Foursquare or Gowalla to share their location with friends online.

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    Parsing Election Day Media – How the Midterms Message Varied by Platform

    In today’s news landscape, both mainstream and new media sources shape the narrative. A new PEJ study finds that no single unified message reverberated throughout the media universe in the wake of the November 2 voting and what one learned depended largely on where one got the news.  How did the post election-day narrative differ from the front pages to the television studies and from bloggers to Twitterers?

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    Technology Aids Life but with Risk Attached

    The general topic areas of coverage alone reflect some of the dual sense about technology that came through in the media, a sense of unease and excitement. To probe further, the study also looked at how the stories were explicitly written, in addition to what they were about.  We examined each story for central themes […]