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Rogers Accepts Position as Visiting Professor at Wake Forest Divinity School After three years at the helm of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Melissa Rogers has decided to step down from that position next month. Rogers has accepted a position as Visiting Professor of Religion and Public Policy at the Wake Forest […]
Is Spam Killing the Killer App? Email was the original “killer app” of the Internet, and it remains the most popular online activity. Some 93% of adult American Internet users, about 117 million people, use email. On any given day online, nearly twice as many Internet users will log on to email as will engage […]
Close to two-thirds of Americans now go online to access the Internet. 63% of Americans now go online — last measured in our August 2003 survey. That amounts to 47% growth in the U.S. adult population using the Internet, from 86 million in March 2000 to 126 million in August 2003. 52% of Internet users […]
Church attendance back to pre-terrorist attack levels Nearly two years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, higher numbers of Americans believe that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence among its followers, a recent poll reveals. CONTACT Mary SchultzCommunications Manager202.419.4556mschultz@pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion The survey, conducted June 24-July 8 […]
Spam exists because it is profitable, but emailers have defenses they can use. There are many profiteers in the lucrative spam industry: Email address list builders scavenge and sell lists of email addresses. Software makers and marketers build and sell cheap programs that facilitate numerous illegal spam activities: look for vulnerable, hackable email servers, disguise […]
WASHINGTON – Internet penetration is not spread evenly across the United States, with some regions of the country well above the national average of 59% and some parts well below. Even among Internet users there is sometimes considerable variance in the things they do online in different parts of the country. According to data collected […]
On behalf of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the authors would like to acknowledge the contributions to this study by the following people: Lee Rainie provided editorial direction and insights at every stage of the research. Tom Ferguson, MD, conceived the online survey, coordinated respondent recruitment, and provided valuable observations. We are grateful […]
Religious Divides on Gay Marriage, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict A poll released today by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows that there has been an important shift in public perceptions of Islam. Fully 44 percent of the American public now believes that Islam […]