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John B. Horrigan

Former Senior Researcher

John B. Horrigan is a former senior researcher focusing on the internet and technology at Pew Research Center.

Publications

reportApr 21, 2015

Americans’ Views on Open Government Data

Many hope that more transparency and data sharing will help journalists, make officials more accountable and improve decisions. But very few think agencies are doing a great job of providing useful data.
short readsApr 20, 2015

The numbers behind the broadband ‘homework gap’

A new Pew Research Center analysis finds low-income households, especially black and Hispanic ones, make up a disproportionate share of the 5 million with school-age children that lack broadband access.
reportJun 17, 2009

Home Broadband Adoption 2009

Broadband adoption increases, but monthly prices do, too.
presentationMay 19, 2009

Onramps to Online Life: How Do People Access Digital Information?

John B. Horrigan will participate on a panel entitled “Scarcity, Diversity, Efficiency: Media Structure Regulation Reconsidered” at the Quello Center’s 2009 Communication Law and Policy Symposium. The title for this year’s symposium is “Rethinking…
presentationApr 23, 2009

How Users Shape the Mobile Ecosystem

John B. Horrigan discusses how users shape the mobile ecosystem by comparing adoption of the mobile net to adoption of the desktop internet of the 1990s and by focusing on the “motivated by mobility” groups from the Project’s The Mobile Difference…
presentationApr 3, 2009

If We Build It, Will They Log On?

John Horrigan will participate in a roundtable discussion at the 2009 Cable Show, sponsored by the National Cable Television Association.
reportMar 25, 2009

The Mobile Difference

Wireless connectivity has drawn many users more deeply into digital life.
presentationMar 23, 2009

Mapping Broadband and Understanding the Internet

John Horrigan will participate in a roundtable on “Mapping Broadband” at the National Telecommunications & Information Administration. This is part public outreach for the Commerce Department’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.
reportJan 21, 2009

Stimulating Broadband: If Obama builds it, will they log on?

Investment in broadband has become part of the broader discussion about President Obama’s economic stimulus package. How easy will it be to increase the pool of broadband subscribers or to encourage existing ones to upgrade their connection speeds?
reportDec 4, 2008

Obama’s Online Opportunities

There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have…