The Strength of Internet Ties
The internet helps maintain people’s social networks, and connects them to members of their social network when they need help. 60 million Americans have turned to the internet for help with major life decisions.
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Methodology
The results in this report are based on data from a series of telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International between October, 2004, and June, 2005. For results based on the sample of 6,403 adults, 18 and older, conducted January-June, 2005, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling […]
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Part 1. Introduction
Public attitudes toward online dating have changed. Since their emergence in the mid-1990’s, online dating services have become an increasingly popular way for Americans to seek romantic partners and lifelong mates. While people have been finding love online since the earliest days of the internet, through newsgroups, chat rooms, games and other online communities, the […]
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Is There a Global Resurgence of Religion?
National Press Club Washington, D.C. At a time when some analysts see a worldwide resurgence of religion, University of Michigan Research Professor Ronald Inglehart says the picture is more complex. The Pew Forum and the Council on Foreign Relations hosted a presentation by Inglehart, who chairs the World Values Survey, an investigation by a global […]
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Part 6. Issues about computers and the internet: Awareness, interest, attitudes, aptitude, self-confidence
Introduction The Pew Internet Project has probed some of the softer issues surrounding men’s and women’s internet use. Over the years, we have asked a variety of questions about users’ awareness of internet issues and developments, and about their general interest in technology and the internet. We have asked about users’ perceived aptitude and self-confidence […]
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Acknowledgments
On behalf of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the authors would like to acknowledge contributions to this study by the following people: Shyon Baumann, Victoria Boase, Wenhong Chen, Rochelle Côté, David Lazer, Bonnie Erickson, Jane Fountain, Bernie Hogan, Miki Itano, Tracy Kennedy, and Beverly Wellman. This material is based upon work supported by […]
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Keeping in Contact with Core and Significant Ties
There has been an explosion in the modes and reach of remote communication. When Wellman conducted his early studies of social ties in 1968 and 1979,[8.numoffset=”8″ See Wellman (1979) and Wellman and Wortley (1990).] the results were relatively straightforward. Americans either telephoned (using traditional “landline” phones, of course)[9. There is no popular term for traditional […]
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The internet improves Americans’ capacity to maintain their social networks and get help
A new Pew Internet report done jointly with University of Toronto sociologists shows that the internet helps cultivate social networks and put them into action at times when people need help on important matters in their lives.
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Part 1. Introduction
About this report Over the last six years, the Pew Internet Project has asked tens of thousands of people thousands of questions about the internet. We have measured internet users’ online behavior, we have probed their awareness and attitudes about computers and the internet, and we have gathered impressions of how the internet fits into […]
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Women are catching up to men in most measures of online life
Washington – A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men use the internet shows that men continue to pursue many internet activities more intensively than women, and that men are still first out of the blocks in trying the latest technologies. At the same time, there are trends showing that women are catching […]