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Feb 3, 2010Amanda Lenhart, Kristen Purcell, Aaron Smith, Kathryn Zickuhr
Social media and mobile internet use among teens and young adults.
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Blogs, or online journals, are a way for internet users to express themselves creatively or to document their experiences. About one in ten internet users contribute to a blog; one in three internet users read blogs.
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Jul 19, 2006
The amazing Pew Internet Life project has just released a study on blogging in the USA -- it's full of really chunky stats compiled from phone interviews with bloggers: "most bloggers are primarily interested in creative, personal expression -- docum...
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Associated Press, ABC News
Bloggers are a predominantly young group of Internet users who are novice storytellers, enjoy describing their own experiences and have a growing audience in the online world. A glimpse of this group was put together by the Pew Internet & American...
Jul 19, 2006Amanda Lenhart, Susannah Fox
A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers.
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Feb 28, 2006Amanda Lenhart
Amanda Lenhart appeared with blogger Glenn Reynolds on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on NPR. She spoke about the role of blogs in the new information environment. The show can be accessed here.
Feb 17, 2006
This is the dataset for our bloggers callback survey. It is used in our 2006 Bloggers report.
Feb 15, 2006Deborah Fallows
About 40 million Americans were browsing the web just for fun or to pass the time on a typical day in December 2005.
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May 16, 2005Michael Cornfield
Experimental research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and BuzzMetrics suggests that political bloggers can make an impact on politics, but they often follow the lead of politicians and journalists.
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May 2, 2005Lee Rainie
About 1 out of every 20 American adults has created a blog and 1 out of 6 is a blog reader.
Feb 4, 2005Paul Hitlin
Why wait for the next day to comment on the State of the Union when you can blog in real-time?
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