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Barry Wellman and Lee Rainie, The Globe and Mail
Oct 16, 2012
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. With all ...
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Presentation
Oct 11, 2012Lee Rainie
Are you checking email or tweeting or texting as you read this session description? Today, many of us are hyper-connected through the web, mobile technologies and social media.
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Ryan Lytle, U.S. News & World Report
Aug 16, 2012
Higher education is going to look much different in the future, with a greater reliance on teleconferencing and distance learning, according to a recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Sixty percent of the 1,021 respondents, wh...
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Howard Finberg, Poynter
Jul 27, 2012
The winds of technological change are likely to blow apart educational institutes — and journalism training — and by 2020 universities will likely be quite different than they are today, according to a survey of Internet and education experts release...
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Report
Jul 27, 2012Janna Anderson, Jan Lauren Boyles, Lee Rainie
Experts expect more-efficient collaborative environments and new grading schemes; they worry about massive online courses, the shift away from on-campus life
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Presentation
Jul 27, 2012Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie discussed the findings of the most recent expert surveys on the future of the internet.
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Jul 20, 2012Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie
While many see promise in the future of data analysis, some fear that work with gigantic stores of information could lead to privacy abuses and mistaken forecasts
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Sarah Kessler, Fast Company
Jul 20, 2012
Big data--which powers everything from Netflix recommendations to fraud alerts--is changing the way we live. But is that a good thing? In the latest Pew Internet/Elon University survey, 53% of a handpicked group of “Internet experts, observers and st...
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Mary Umberger, Chicago Tribune
Jul 19, 2012
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Q: Your report on this survey tends to dwell on the half that said, sorry, no Jetsons home is coming soon. What were their reasons?
A: A lot of people said, from a technology standpoint as well as an industry standpoint, that there are ba...
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Somini Sengupta, New York Times
Jul 6, 2012
Will Internet companies help or hinder government authorities that try to restrict their citizens from using the Web freely? And will their customers, investors or shareholders care enough to do something about it?
That debate was freshly stirred ...
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