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Presentation
Sep 29, 2009Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie did a podcast with Inmagic about the latest research of the Pew Internet Project and how the internet is changing the lives of knowledge workers like librarians and those who work in firms that specialize in research firms and media compan...
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Media Mention
Grant Gross, PC World (IDG News Service)
Sep 22, 2009
The FCC is about midway through a year-long effort to create a national broadband plan, and Blair Levin, executive director of the FCC's omnibus broadband initiative, said Tuesday he hopes he hasn't heard all the good ideas yet. "There's a lot of cap...
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Presentation
Sep 22, 2009Susannah Fox
Pew Internet research shows that, in politics and in health care, participation matters as much as access.
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Cecilia Kang, Washington Post | Post I.T.
Sep 15, 2009
Concerns over the effects of cellphone radiation have surfaced again in Washington, with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)'s pledge Monday to look more into the potential health dangers for users.
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The revived debate will take on ne...
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Ken Strutin, New York Law Journal
Sep 10, 2009
And wireless mobile devices are becoming the principal means for online communication in a multiplatform world. As recently reported in Wireless Internet Use: "An April 2009 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Proje...
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Linda Wertheimer, NPR
Sep 2, 2009
Mr. ARMSTRONG: [. . .] a recent study was done by the Pew Internet in American Life Project. And it's called the Home Broadband Adoption 2009 study. [. . .] And what they found was that this was the second consecutive year of broadband adoption growt...
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Ki Mae Heussner, ABC News
Sep 2, 2009
First Network Connection Between Two Computers Took Place Sept. 2, 1969
Though it might try to hide its graying hairs, it was 40 years ago today that computer scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, established a network connectio...
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Data Set
Sep 1, 2009
This data set contains questions about teens and mobile phone usage. It was used in the reports "Teens and Mobile Phones", "Teens and Sexting" and "Teens and Distracted Driving".
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Media Mention
Elizabeth Cohen, CNN
Aug 27, 2009
"The power that Senator Kennedy had has now trickled down to all of us, who can virtually gather people in our living room," says Susannah Fox, associate director of the Pew Internet Project and co-author of a report on Internet use and health inform...
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Media Mention
Claire Cain Miller, New York Times
Aug 25, 2009
A recently released app that offers free text messages on the iPhone is welcome news to parents of teenagers upset over the cellphone bills of their hypertexting children. But can it be a sustainable business?
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Mr. Lahman thinks textPlus h...
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