Online Community and Connection in America
Nearly four-in-ten U.S. adults are in an online community. These virtual third spaces can take many forms, like Facebook groups, online video games or fandom forums on Reddit.
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Teens, Social Media and Technology 2018
YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are the most popular online platforms among teens. Fully 95% of teens have access to a smartphone and 45% say they are online almost constantly.
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En Europa Occidental, las actitudes del público con respecto a los medios informativos se encuentran más divididas por las opiniones populistas que por las ideologías de derechas o de izquierdas
En Europa Occidental, las opiniones del público sobre los medios informativos están divididas por las tendencias populistas, más que por las identidades políticas de izquierdas o de derechas, según una nueva encuesta del Pew Research Center realizada en Dinamarca, Francia, Alemania, Italia, los Países Bajos, España, Suecia y el Reino Unido.
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Allmänhetens inställning till nyhetsmedia i Västeuropa mer uppdelad efter populistiska åsikter än vänster/höger-ideologier
Den här texten har översatts från engelska till svenska. I Västeuropa är allmänhetens inställning till nyhetsmedia mer uppdelad efter populistiska åsikter än efter den politiska vänster–höger-skalan, enligt en ny undersökning av Pew Research Center som genomförts i Danmark, Frankrike, Tyskland, Italien, Nederländerna, Spanien, Sverige och Storbritannien. Undersökningen genomfördes den 30 oktober–20 december 2017 bland 16 114 […]
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In Europa occidentale, l’atteggiamento del pubblico nei confronti dei mezzi di informazione è più diviso da opinioni populiste che da ideologie di destra o di sinistra
In Europa occidentale, l’opinione pubblica sui mezzi di informazione è divisa da tendenze populiste, più che da posizioni politiche di destra o di sinistra, secondo un nuovo sondaggio del Pew Research Center condotto in Danimarca, Francia, Germania, Italia, Paesi Bassi, Spagna, Svezia e Regno Unito.
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In Western Europe, Public Attitudes Toward News Media More Divided by Populist Views Than Left-Right Ideology
Across eight Western European countries, people with populist leanings have more negative attitudes about the news media than do those with non-populist views.
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Declining share of Americans would find it very hard to give up TV
Just 31% of Americans say it would be very hard to give up their TV, down from 2006. In contrast, roughly half of cellphone owners say it would be very hard to give up their cellphone.
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Declining Majority of Online Adults Say the Internet Has Been Good for Society
At the same time, the contours of connectivity are shifting: One-in-five Americans (20%) are now ‘smartphone only’ internet users at home.
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Q&A: How Pew Research Center identified bots on Twitter
For a recent study on automated accounts and Twitter, we had to answer a fundamental question: Which accounts are bots and which accounts aren’t? Read a Q&A with Stefan Wojcik, a computational social scientist at the Center and one of the report’s authors, on how he and his colleagues navigated this question.
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Americans Favor Protecting Information Freedoms Over Government Steps to Restrict False News Online
U.S. adults are mostly against government action that could limit people’s ability to access and publish information online. There is more support for steps by technology companies.
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Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024
Nearly half of U.S. teens (46%) say they’re on the internet almost constantly. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used by teens.
How Teens and Parents Approach Screen Time
Most teens at least sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don’t have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious. Half of parents say they have looked through their teen’s phone.
How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.
Americans’ Use of Mobile Technology and Home Broadband
Most U.S. adults today say they use the internet (95%), have a smartphone (90%) or subscribe to high-speed internet at home (80%). About four-in-ten report being online almost constantly.
