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Mar 15, 2011Wall Street Journal
Nearly half of all Americans get their local news on a mobile device, though few are paying to read their local news on the go, according to a new study by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project released Monday. Lee Rainie, directo...
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More in: News, New Media Ecology
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Mar 14, 2011Journalism That Matters
In this 25-minute discussion (via Skye), Pew Internet Director Lee Raine talks with Journalism That Matters' Bill Densmore about how libraries can adjust and thrive in the new media ecosystem.
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More in: New Media Ecology, Libraries, Web 2.0
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Feb 20, 2011The New York Times
Lee Rainie, director of the Internet and American Life Project, says that blogging is not so much dying as shifting with the times. Entrepreneurs have taken some of the features popularized by blogging and weaved them into other kinds of services....
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More in: Blogs, Social Networking
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Feb 17, 2011Washington Post
The Commerce Department on Thursday said five to 10 percent of Americans lack access to Internet connections fast enough to download basic Web pages and videos.
The finding comes from data used in a searchable map made public on Thursda...
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More in: Broadband
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Feb 5, 2011New York Times
But all of this amped-up productivity comes with a growing sense of unease. Too often, people find themselves with little time to concentrate and reflect on their work. Or to be truly present with their friends and family.
There’s a pal...
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More in: Mobile
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Jan 27, 2011Christian Science Monitor
Democrats and the Obama campaign may have pioneered the use of social media in an election, but Republican voters and tea party activists caught up with them in 2010, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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Jan 26, 2011NPR
"Lots more people — including Republicans, independents, supporters of the Tea Party — are just as active in this space as Democrats used to be," says Lee Rainie, director of Pew's Internet and American Life Project. "So the Democratic advantage, ...
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More in: Politics
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Jan 19, 2011NPR
When one imagines an Internet user, the image that appears may be that of a solitary individual staring at a computer screen at an unbeknownst hour. It's a lot like the lonely Internet user that Robert Putnam described in Bowling Alone. In the boo...
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More in: Communities
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Jan 15, 2011San Francisco Chronicle
Wikipedia has continually altered its rules and guidelines over the years to prevent these sorts of problems, including: emphasizing neutral points of view, pushing for links to original sources like studies or news articles, providing tools to ...
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Jan 15, 2011Associated Press
Intentionally launched far from the mercantile mania of Silicon Valley, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Wikipedia nevertheless helped turn Google into a verb and a multibillion-dollar business. It is now used by a majority of Americans who access the Int...
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