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One thing Web sites clearly promote and project is an image of the candidate that they (and their strategists) think will work best. So what are those images? What buzz words are popular this year—and which ones define which parties? The Most Frequent Words The words “children” and “family” are the next most popular. They […]
Muslim publics around the world increasingly reject suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets in the defense of Islam. Overall, majorities in 15 of 16 Muslim publics surveyed say that suicide bombings can be rarely or never justified. Fully 77% of Muslims in Indonesia – and nearly as many in Bangladesh, Pakistan […]
People around the world often mention neighboring nations as posing the greatest threats to their own countries. Proximity also is a factor in peoples’ views of their country’s most dependable allies. However, world powers often make the list – and the United States appears prominently on the lists of major allies and threats. In fact, […]
About the Pew Internet & American Life Project: The Pew Internet Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan initiative of the Pew Research Center (www.pewresearch.org). The Project is a think tank that explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care, and civic/political life. The Project aims to be an […]
About the Pew Internet & American Life Project The Pew Internet Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan initiative of the Pew Research Center that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care, and civic/political life. Support for the project is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts. More information […]
On behalf of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the authors would like to acknowledge the contributions to this study by the following people: Thanks to Alex Rankin Macgill for her research, writing and chart and table producing skills; thanks also to danah boyd, Fred Stutzman and Eszter Hargittai for their assistance with the […]