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    Photos and Videos as Social Currency Online

    46% of internet users post original photos & videos online; 41% curate photos & videos they find elsewhere on the web and post on image-sharing sites. Women are more likely than men to use Pinterest; Instagram & Tumblr attract equal shares of both.

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    The Sandwich Generation

    With an aging population and a generation of young adults struggling to achieve financial independence, the burdens and responsibilities of middle-aged Americans are increasing. Nearly half (47%) of adults in their 40s and 50s have a parent age 65 or older and are either raising a young child or financially supporting a grown child (age […]

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    Additional Material and Demographics

    A demographic portrait of creators and curators and users of various social media services The material that follows in this report is built around a series of tables that give a demographic portrait of creators and curators and users of various social media services. Creators are younger The table below covers anyone who said she […]

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    Appendix: Government Programs

    This report has analyzed six large and well-known federal government entitlement programs. While our survey asks the public to self-report its use of these programs over the span of their lifetime or the lifetimes of other household members, data from the programs themselves provide a more current snapshot of recipients. Using the most recent available […]

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    Mobile Activity: News Ranks High

    Despite the growth in tablet ownership and diversity of devices available, recent tablet owners seem to be embracing the devices in ways similar to the first generation of tablet owners.              Most who own tablets-both early and late adopters – have integrated the devices into their routines on a daily basis. About two-thirds (68%) use their […]

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    Public Says a Secure Job Is the Ticket to the Middle Class

    Americans believe that having a secure job is by far the most important requirement for being in the middle class, easily trumping homeownership and a college education, according to a new nationwide Pew Research Center survey of 2,508 adults. Nearly nine-in-ten adults (86%) say a person needs a secure job to be considered part of […]

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    The Complicated Politics of Abortion

    Abortion has emerged as an issue in the 2012 presidential race, following Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin’s controversial comments about abortion and “legitimate rape.” In recent years, narrow majorities of the public have consistently said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. The Democratic Party is widely favored over the GOP […]

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    Social Media on Election Day

    Election Day 2012 was one of the busiest ever in the world of social media. Twitter reported that the election was the most tweeted-about event in U.S. political history. There were more than 31 million tweets sent, with a peak of 327,452 tweets per minute shortly after the television networks called the race for Obama. […]

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    Section 4: Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences

    In general, the regular audiences for most television and print news outlets tend to be older than the public as a whole. Yet there are some notable exceptions. As was the case two years ago, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show have the youngest audiences of the 24 news sources tested: 43% of Colbert’s […]

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    A Comparison of Results from Surveys by the Pew Research Center and Google Consumer Surveys

    As internet use grows– whether through a traditional computer, tablet, gaming device or cell phone – new techniques are being developed to conduct social research and measure people’s behavior and opinion while they are online. The Pew Research Center has been exploring these new techniques for measuring public opinion and critically evaluating how they compare […]