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    New Report on Libraries and the Digital Divide

    In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a number of other national civic organizations, The Pew Internet & American Life Project served as research advisors for a new report finding that public libraries have helped close the d…

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    The Rise of Wireless Connectivity and PIP’s Latest Findings

    In our Internet tracking survey in February, 2004 we recorded our highest readings ever on the number of Internet users who are e-shoppers, the number who participate in online auctions, and the number of Americans who use computers. In addition, we …

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    Is the Market Moral? A Dialogue on Religion, Economics & Justice

    2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Reception Immediately Following Washington, D.C. Panelists: Rebecca M. Blank, Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor of Policy and Economics, University of Michigan; Co-director of the National Poverty Center, Ford School William McGurn, Chief Editorial Writer, Wall Street Journal; member, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Lawrence Mishel, President, Economic […]

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    Commentary on the Survey Findings

    By Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel and Amy Mitchell What Journalists Are Worried About A Newsroom-Executive Divide Specific Areas of ConcernThe Internet as a Place of Confidence and CutsConfidence in the PublicPolitics & Ideology Crossing from Concern to Frustration Introduction While their worries are changing, the problems that journalists see with their profession in many ways […]

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    Part 2. How Americans Contact Government and Why

    What Government Patrons want. To compare the different means people use to contact government and the outcomes, survey respondents were asked whether they contacted government in the past year (the year prior to the July 2003 survey), and by what means – telephone, Internet, letter, or in-person visits. For analysis of the subsequent series of […]

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    Part 4. Rural Attitudes Toward the Internet

    Rural Internet newcomers have mixed feelings about computers and technology, but more experienced users are more positive about them. Another way to measure diffusion of the Internet is the attitudes and beliefs that users and non-users hold toward it. For less experienced users, computers inspire mixed feelings. In all community types, larger percentages of new […]

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    Rural Areas and the Internet

    This report provides a portrait of rural America’s Internet users, the activities they pursue online and their attitudes about the Internet compared to online Americans in urban and suburban communities

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    14% of Internet users say they no longer download music files

    14% of the 128 million American adults now online report that they downloaded music at one time, but no longer do so. About a third of these former music downloaders – 6 million adults – say that the RIAA’s tactics are the reason they stopped.

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    Part 3. Implications for the future

    Many seniors have no interest in going online. Those who do want to get access face significant barriers. Eight in ten off-line seniors do not think they will ever go online.[9.numoffset=”9″ Lenhart, 2003.] They often live lives far removed from the Internet, know few people who use email or surf the Web, and cannot imagine […]

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    Part 2. Familiar concerns drive wired seniors’ online research

    Wired seniors want to keep up to date, whether that means emailing their children or staying current with the news. Communication tops the agenda for wired seniors – but they generally stick to email. As noted, email is equally popular among Internet users age 65 or older and their younger counterparts. Fully 94% of wired […]