Americans and Digital Knowledge in 2019
A majority of U.S. adults can answer fewer than half the questions correctly on a digital knowledge quiz, and many struggle with certain cybersecurity and privacy questions
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A majority of U.S. adults can answer fewer than half the questions correctly on a digital knowledge quiz, and many struggle with certain cybersecurity and privacy questions
Every year, we publish hundreds of reports, blog posts, digital essays and other studies. Here are some of our most noteworthy findings from the past year.
How many U.S. adults use the internet? There are a lot of sources with answers to this question. Yet these different sources can be tricky to reconcile.
To focus on words that represented widespread and general topics, rather than names or terms specific to particular channels, researchers collected words that were mentioned in the titles of at least 100 different videos published by at least 10 different channels (353 words met this threshold).[7. Some relatively uninformative or ambiguous words were excluded from […]
The analysis in this report is based on an examination of videos published the first week of 2019 on YouTube channels with at least 250,000 subscribers. Because there is no exhaustive or officially sanctioned list of all videos or channels (of any size) on YouTube, Pew Research Center developed its own custom list of 43,770 […]
The media landscape was upended more than a decade ago when the video-sharing site YouTube was launched. The volume and variety of content posted on the site is staggering. The site’s popularity makes it a launchpad for performers, businesses and commentators on every conceivable subject. And like many platforms in the modern digital ecosystem, YouTube […]
We’ve been asking Americans about their online news habits since the mid-1990s. Since then, the ways people get news online have changed a lot — and so have the ways we ask about it.
Republicans and Democrats are particularly divided on how closely they connect made-up news to the news media or to President Trump.
About half of the experts responding to this canvassing said people’s uses of technology will mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation, but even those who expressed optimism often voiced concerns. This section includes comments about problems that were made by all respondents regardless of their answer to the main question about the […]
The following expert contributions offer deep, broad insights that represent the diversity of thought expressed by leading expert commentators in this canvassing. If we develop guardrails, the core elements of democracy will be strengthened Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute, wrote, “There are too many variables in play to predict just one plausible […]
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