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May 1, 2013Digital Book World
According to new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, parents see libraries as very important community resources. Libraries’ digital books and technologies are a major draw for families.
Parents value ...
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May 1, 2013Deseret News
The survey found that among all adults, parents are more likely to have library cards, visit the library, use the library website and participate in programs there, said Lee Rainie, who directs the Internet and American Life Project for Pew.
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May 1, 2013Publishers Weekly
In two previous surveys released over the last year, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has found that, despite the charge of technology, libraries remain popular among the American public. And in a follow-up report release...
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Apr 4, 2013MIT Technology Review
“One of the reasons these services are popular is they’re hearkening back to a time when the context was all that mattered,” says Lee Rainie, director of Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. “You’re just having a little shared t...
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Feb 5, 2013New York Times
Facebook is the most popular social network in America — roughly two-thirds of adults in the country use it on a regular basis.
But that doesn’t mean they don’t get sick of it.
A new study released on Tuesday by the Pew Resea...
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Jan 4, 2013PBS NEWSHOUR
Jeffrey Brown talked to Director Lee Rainie about the findings in our report on the impact of technology on arts organizations. Watch now.
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Nov 26, 2012New York Times
A new report finds that certain activities that people do on a cellphone, like taking a picture and shooting video, have increased significantly in the last few years. Texting, in particular, has grown considerably — but not texting in the traditi...
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Oct 31, 2012SFGate
Most teachers believe search engines like Google are beneficial to their students, but they also think those same Internet research tools are creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans," according to a new study released ...
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Oct 19, 2012SFGate
This should come as no surprise at a time when a phrase like “binders full of women” can instantly become an Internet meme, but a new study shows that about 66 percent of social media users have used those platforms to comment about political cand...
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Oct 16, 2012The Globe and Mail
It’s much harder to spot absences than presences. Presences can jump out and smack you in the face. Absences just lurk until they startle you.
Right now, we’re looking at an absence that would have been a startling presence 50 years ago...
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