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Lee Rainie is the founding Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Since December 1999, the Washington D.C. research center has examined how people’s internet use affects their families, communities, health care, education, civic and political life, and work places.
In addition, the Project uses regular surveys to track online life. It regularly reports findings on subjects such as teenagers’ and senior citizens’ use of the internet, broadband adoption, trends in email use, how people employ search engines, use of the internet to gather news (especially about politics), blog creation and readership, and trends in music and movie file sharing.
The Project has issued more than 100 reports based on social issues and online activities. It also has focused research on important public policy questions such as public attitudes about trust and privacy online, development of e-government, attitudes about intellectual property issues, the impact of spam, and the status of digital divides. The Project is non-partisan and takes no positions on policy matters. All of its reports and datasets are available online for free at: http://www.pewinternet.org.
Prior to launching the Pew Internet Project, Rainie was managing editor of U.S. News & World Report. He is a graduate of Harvard College and has a master’s degree in political science from Long Island University.
Reports By Lee Rainie, 36 Total:
Increased Use of Video-sharing Sites
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Information Searches That Solve Problems
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Wikipedia users
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Tagging
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Election 2006 Online
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Presentations By Lee Rainie, 41 Total:
The role of libraries in the digital age
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Libraries Solve Problems
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Surviving in the New Digital Ecosystem
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The impact of technology on people's everyday lives
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2.0 and the Internet World
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Articles By Lee Rainie, 10 Total:
The Numbers that Count
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Foreword
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Internet Use and the Terror Attacks
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Emails That Matter: Changing Patterns of Internet Use Over a Year’s Time
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Days and Nights on the Internet: The Impact of a Diffusing Technology
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PIP Comments By Lee Rainie, 29 Total:
Libraries Solve Problems
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The new information order
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Public Policy and The Future of the Internet
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The internet and politics
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Virtual tours
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