The Power of the Web
Susannah Fox will provide a sneak preview of an upcoming report on how people living with cancer use the internet, in addition to an overview of already-released findings on the social life of health information.
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A New Conversation About Health Privacy
Mobile, social technologies are tapping in to a human need to connect with each other, to share, to lend a helping hand, and to laugh. I’d like to start a conversation about health privacy that includes an open dialogue about the risks and benefit…
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Leveraging Social Media and the Mobile Internet in Health Messaging
A synthesis of the Pew Internet Project’s most recent research related to health and the participatory news consumer.
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Assessing the Cell Phone Challenge
With fully a quarter of the U.S. adult population now relying solely on cell phone service, pollsters and other survey researchers face a difficult decision as to whether to include cell phones in their samples. A joint study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Internet & American Life Project takes an up-to-date look at the potential biases in findings based on landline-only surveys.
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Assessing The Cell Phone Challenge
A joint study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Internet & American Life Project takes an up-to-date look at the potential biases in findings based on landline-only surveys.
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How libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem
Lee Rainie spoke to librarians in Barcelona (May 19, 2010) and Madrid (May 21, 2010) about how libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem. Includes speech text and slides.
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Explaining racial differences in attitudes towards government use of social media
How do we explain the disparity between African-Americans’ and Hispanics’ views of the importance of government social media versus whites?
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Teens and Mobile Phones: Texting rises sharply as mobile phones become the communication hub for American teens.
In a brown bag lunch talk given to FTC, FCC and Department of Education staff, Amanda talks about teens and mobile phones – who has them, how they use them and how schools and parents approach and manage the devices in the home and in the classroom.
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Participatory Medicine – Chronic Disease in the Internet Age
The internet does not replace health professionals, but rather provides a way for people to gather and share information in a rapid-learning system that can best be described as “participatory medicine.”
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Participant-Entrepreneurs: Innovating Toward Better Health
Not content to stand by and let other people innovate for them, participant-entrepreneurs are creating the services, devices, and communities they need.