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Sep 10, 2009The Dallas Morning News
If people in the Great Depression flocked to 25-cent movies to escape from bad news, economic worrywarts nowadays are finding solace on the Internet.
That's the conclusion of a survey released Thursday by the Pew Internet & American Lif...
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Sep 3, 2009PBS MediaShift
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that for the first time a majority (55 percent) of voting-age adults engaged with politics online during the 2008 presi...
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Sep 2, 2009BBC News
US civic engagement remains in the hands of the middle-class despite hopes that the internet would democratise political involvement.
Those are the findings of a report from the Pew Internet Project.
Online p...
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Sep 1, 2009Associated Press
The Pew Internet and American Life Project says in a report Tuesday that people who participate in civic life online tend to be richer and better educated. That's not much different from the makeup in offline politics. Pew counts activities such a...
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Sep 1, 2009The Hill
The Internet has prompted young adults to become much more politically active, but the technology has not succeeded in getting other historically inactive groups involved in civic activism, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Interne...
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Sep 1, 2009Ars Technica
Partisans on these issues may experience the Pew Internet and American Life Projects' latest study as a bit of a downer. It says that cyberspace hasn't really affected activism all that much in at least one fundamental sense. "Just as in offline c...
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Sep 1, 2009PC Magazine
The Internet is many things to many people. Some use it for entertainment, others for information, and some even to find true love. But in the grips of an economic recession, an increasing number of people are using the Web for help and support. T...
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Sep 1, 2009The Atlantic
In 2004, Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s techie campaign manager, declared that “the Internet is the most democratizing innovation we’ve ever seen—more so even than the printing press.” Five years later, after Read More
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Sep 1, 2009NextGov.com
Wealthy and well-educated Americans dominate online civic activities, just as they have long dominated traditional civic involvement, according to a study released on Tuesday by Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. [...]
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Aug 27, 2009Laptop Magazine
Is cable TV about to go the way of UHF? Data culled by the Pew Research Center estimates that 22 percent of American adults have cut back or canceled cable within the past year, and within that group, 32 percent have connected their computers to t...
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