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Media Mention
Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
Dec 22, 2009
Latino adults are increasing their use of the Internet faster than other ethnic groups, according to a new survey from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Internet and American Life Project...
Latinos who were born in the U.S. were much more like...
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More in: Race and Ethnicity , Digital Divide
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Commentary
Dec 22, 2009Susannah Fox
64% of Latino adults ages 18 and older used the internet in 2008, compared with 54% of Latinos in 2006.
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Media Mention
Randall Stross, New York Times
Oct 19, 2009
ACCESS to a fast Internet connection has become more than a convenience. It’s being enshrined in some countries as a legal right of all citizens. Finland, for example, announced last week that it was moving up its timetable to next year from 2015 for...
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Steve Giegerich, Associated Press Newswires
Oct 9, 2009
A 2009 study by the Pew Foundation's Internet and American Life Project illustrates the depth of the digital divide.
Pew found that 85 percent of households with an income exceeding $75,000 have broadband service, more than double the 42 percent o...
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Media Mention
Alex Johnson, MSNBC.com
Oct 2, 2009
After working for the city of Zanesville, Ohio, for 27 years, Sharon Newton had to go back to school.
Newton lost her job this year, and when she went to look for a new one she discovered that, even with all of her experience, she wasn’t prepared ...
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Media Mention
Steven Davy, PBS MediaShift
Sep 3, 2009
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that for the first time a majority (55 percent) of voting-age adults engaged with politics online during the 2008 presidential election.
"In each consecutive, comparable election season sinc...
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More in: Government, Digital Divide, Politics, Social Networking
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Media Mention
BBC News
Sep 2, 2009
US civic engagement remains in the hands of the middle-class despite hopes that the internet would democratise political involvement.
Those are the findings of a report from the Pew Internet Project.
Online political engagement such as contacti...
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Media Mention
Associated Press
Sep 1, 2009
The Pew Internet and American Life Project says in a report Tuesday that people who participate in civic life online tend to be richer and better educated. That's not much different from the makeup in offline politics. Pew counts activities such as c...
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Media Mention
Kim Hart, The Hill
Sep 1, 2009
The Internet has prompted young adults to become much more politically active, but the technology has not succeeded in getting other historically inactive groups involved in civic activism, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Internet a...
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More in: Government, Digital Divide, Politics