Media Mention

In the future, you'll game without knowing it

Winda Benedetti, msnbc.com

May 18, 2012

Imagine a future in which you earn badges and achievements at every turn. Meanwhile, companies are constantly encouraging you to level up your life as a way to draw you in. Perhaps you earn a special badge as you run the treadmill at the gym or you l...

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Report

The Future of Gamification

May 18, 2012Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie

Game mechanics like rewards and feedback loops are gaining ground in digital life and many experts think they will spread widely to key domains like education and health by 2020. Others worry about a darker side.

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Report

65% of internet users have paid for online content

Dec 30, 2010Jim Jansen

65% of internet users have paid to access or download some kind of digital content. Music and software are the most common kinds of content purchased.

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Data Set

November 2010 - Paid Content (Omnibus)

Nov 1, 2010

This omnibus survey contains questions about the types of content users purchase online. It was used in the report "Paying for Online Content".

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Report

Americans and their gadgets

Oct 14, 2010Aaron Smith

As the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop, consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for “anytime, anywhere” access to news, information, friends and entertainment.

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Americans use phones more for games, Internet

Suzanne Choney, msnbc.com

Jul 7, 2010

Americans' use of non-voice programs on cell phones has "grown dramatically" over the last year, with even more of us using our phones as cameras and video recorders, as well as for e-mail, Internet and playing games, according to a report from the P...

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Commentary

FCC Comment: Empowering Parents and Protecting Children

Feb 26, 2010Mary Madden

This week we filed a public comment in response to the Federal Communications Notice of Inquiry on the issue of "Empowering Parents and Protecting Kids in an Evolving Media Landscape."

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Presentation

Teen Content Creators

Nov 18, 2009Kathryn Zickuhr

Slides about teen content creators, shown at The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media.

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Media Mention

Videogames now outperform Hollywood movies

Tom Chatfield, The Observer

Sep 27, 2009

The videogame industry is an area in which consumers are voting with their wallets and their eyeballs: audiences, according to recent surveys such as the Pew Internet & American Life Project, are increasingly switching off their televisions and aband...

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Dads Still Got Game, but the Kids Have Got Talent

Donna St. George, Washington Post

Sep 27, 2009

It's a football Sunday, and between NFL matchups on television, Tyson Cole-Hines and his 9-year-old stepson create their own drama on the field with a video game on their Xbox 360.

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"What we're really starting to see is a cohort of fathers wh...

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