Trust and Privacy Online: What the Public Really Wants
Lee’s lecture covered Pew’s basic findings related to privacy and information disclosure.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Search results for: “trust”
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The holidays online – 2002
WASHINGTON – More than three quarters of the nation’s Internet users (78%) did some form of holiday activity via email and the Web this holiday season. They used email to socialize and arrange holiday gatherings, reconnect with old friends, and plan religious activities. They browsed online malls and bought gifts in higher numbers than last […]
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Part 4: The Internet is the first choice for many health information seekers
The Internet is the first choice for many health information seekers The number of Americans who use the Internet to find health care information has been on the rise, with online health and medical information playing a growing role in people’s interactions with their doctors. When the Pew Internet Project first inquired in March 2000 […]
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Part 2: The Internet as the first option for important information
The Internet as the first option for important information Expectations about finding information online are one thing, but trusting the Internet to produce what you want during you next important information search is another. For government and health care information, we asked all Americans to anticipate the next time they may need information in these […]
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Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (reception to follow) Washington, D.C. Speakers Wilfred McClay, SunTrust Chair of Humanities and Professor of History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Hugh Heclo, Robinson Professor of Public Affairs, George Mason University E.J. Dionne Jr., Co-Chair, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life; Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution; and columnist, the […]
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Introduction
The dissemination of the Internet has transformed how many Americans find information and altered how they engage with many institutions, such as government, health care providers, the news media, and commercial enterprises. Terms such as electronic commerce, e-health, telemedicine, and e-government were novel ten years ago. Today, major newspapers and magazines routinely have special sections […]
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Most Americans expect to find what they are looking for online in news, health care, government information, and shopping
WASHINGTON—The growing ranks of experienced Internet users as well as the deepening reach of the Internet into all aspects of American culture has raised all Americans’ expectations about what is available online. New research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that most Internet users (80%) and many non-users (about 40%) expect that […]
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Ambassador’s Address His Excellency Martin Palouš, Czech Ambassador to the United States
4:00 p.m. University of Chicago Divinity School Chicago, Illinois Ambassador Palouš is a political philosopher and was among the first signatories of the Charter 77 document calling on the communist regime in power in Czechoslovakia to respect human rights. In November 1989 he became one of the founders of the Civic Forum, which replaced the […]
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Among Wealthy Nations
Overview For an updated analysis of the link between religiosity and wealth, see World Publics Welcome Global Trade — But Not Immigration. Religion is much more important to Americans than to people living in other wealthy nations. Six-in-ten (59%) people in the U.S. say religion plays a very important role in their lives. This is […]
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Among Wealthy Nations
Introduction and Summary Religion is much more important to Americans than to people living in other wealthy nations. Six-in-ten (59%) people in the U.S. say religion plays a very important role in their lives. This is roughly twice the percentage of self-avowed religious people in Canada (30%), and an even higher proportion when compared with […]