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Nov 16, 2009USA Today
There is a large body of evidence on the dangers of inattention and distraction when driving, including using cellphones, says Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist with Pew. Some studies indicate that talking on a cellphone is more distracti...
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Nov 16, 2009MSNBC.com
A third of teens ages 16 and 17 say they have texted while driving and 48 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 say they have been in a car when the driver was texting, according to a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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Nov 16, 2009Washington Post
A gruesome British public service video that portrays a fatal accident caused by a texting teenage driver has been the talk of Facebook and other places where young Americans congregate, but a new study suggests it hasn't done much to change their...
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Sep 27, 2009The Observer
The videogame industry is an area in which consumers are voting with their wallets and their eyeballs: audiences, according to recent surveys such as the Pew Internet & American Life Project, are increasingly switching off their televisions and ab...
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Sep 2, 2009NPR
Some of the change is cultural. Users have been flocking to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, where they voluntarily share all kinds of details about their lives.
In some ways, the meteoric success of these sites could ...
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Aug 28, 2009Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Today, young movie-watchers look increasingly like Molly O'Connor. A junior at the University of Dallas, she still goes to the cinema occasionally, but is often just as happy to hunker down on a bed or a couch with friends to watch ...
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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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Aug 21, 2009The Christian Science Monitor
One of the first websites to popularize file sharing, Napster was shut down after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit claiming massive copyright infringement. In the years after that lawsuit, the RIAA sued more tha...
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Jul 29, 2009San Francisco Chronicle
A new study out today indicates the "evil plot to destroy the world'' might just be working.
A new Pew Internet & American Life Project report says there is now a more pronounced shift by Internet users toward watching TV and movies o...
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Jul 29, 2009MSNBC
Americans' appetite for Web video, from clips shared on YouTube to TV programs and movies, continues to soar, nearly doubling since 2006, according to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project released Wednesday.
"The aud...
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