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We are grateful to Evans Witt (Princeton Survey Research Associates International) and Kristen Purcell (Pew Internet Project) who assisted in the administration of the project survey. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes, and […]
Mobile at this point is a small part of the revenue of the newspapers in this study. In late 2011, on average, mobile accounted for only .9% of the digital revenue stream of the papers that provided us with data-less than even video and targeted advertising. This is still a nine-fold increase from a negligible […]
Overview Days ahead of the South Carolina primary, Mitt Romney maintains a substantial lead nationally in the race for the GOP nomination. Yet his image among all voters has slipped since November and he runs no better in a general election matchup with Barack Obama than he did then, despite his advantage as the “electable” […]
From that survey, we reported on the rapid rise of SNS since 2008 and the intensive, everyday use of SNS. In our analysis one site stood out for its popularity and potential impact. Compared with non-internet users, other internet users, and even users of other SNS, frequent users of Facebook were more likely to exhibit […]
Hampton, K.N., L.S. Goulet, L. Rainie, and K. Purcell, Social Networking Sites and Our Lives: How People’s Trust, Personal Relationships, and Civic and Political Involvement are Connected to Their Use of Social Networking Sites and Other Technologies. 2011, Pew Research: Washington, D.C. Available from: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2011/Technology-and-social-networks.aspx. Barabasi, A.L., Linked: The New Science of Networks. 2002, Cambridge, […]
Religion and religious people have always been a presence in American prisons. Indeed, some of the country’s first prisons were established at the urging of and with help from people of faith, who hoped that inmates could be reformed during their confinement.1 Today, religious people still play an important role in the U.S. criminal justice […]