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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.
Dec 16, 2010Kathryn Zickuhr
Major trends in how different generations of Americans use the internet
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Dec 19, 2007Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, Alexandra Macgill
More teens are creating and sharing material on the internet. 28% of online teens have blogs, up from 2004 with growth fueled almost entirely by girls. "Super communicators" rise as email fades as a tool for teens.
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Oct 5, 2006Susannah Fox, Mary Madden
“Web 2.0” has become a catch-all buzzword; the Pew Internet Project and Hitwise provide data to put it in perspective.
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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 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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Jan 2, 2005Lee Rainie
By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture: 7% of U.S. internet users say they have created blogs and 27% say they are blog readers.
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The percentage of adults who own an e-reader as of January 2013, up from 10% in mid-December 2011
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.