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    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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    Methodology

    The analysis of Twitter users in this report is based on a nationally representative survey conducted from Nov. 21 to Dec. 17, 2018, among a sample of 2,791 U.S. adults ages 18 years and older who have a Twitter account and agreed to allow researchers to access that account. The margin of error for the […]

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    19 striking findings from 2019

    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.

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    3. Certain keywords in video titles and descriptions were associated with more views

    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 […]

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    Methodology

    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 […]

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    A Week in the Life of Popular YouTube Channels

    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 […]

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    3. Concerns about democracy in the digital age

    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 […]