Report

Hobbyists Online

Sep 19, 2007Susannah Fox, Maggie Griffith

83% of online Americans say they have used the internet to seek information about their hobbies and 29% do so on a typical day.

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Commentary

Screens Along the Silk Road

Sep 14, 2007Deborah Fallows

In my ongoing quest to visit as many internet cafes in China as possible, I was on the lookout last week during our visit to Urumqi (aka: Wulumuqi), a city of about 3 million along the Silk Road in the northwest corner of China.

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Commentary

Internet Addiction in China

Sep 7, 2007Deborah Fallows

Internet addiction in China has been described as a "severe social problem that could threaten the nation's future."

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Commentary

Online gaming in China

Apr 10, 2007Deborah Fallows

Watching the online gamers in China

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Presentation

Teens and the Internet: Findings Submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications Subcommittee

Jul 11, 2006Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Lee Rainie

A summary document of Pew Internet Project data on youth and technology prepared in advance of testimony by Pew Internet staffer Amanda Lenhart at the House Telecom subcommittee hearings.

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Presentation

Teens and technology

Mar 23, 2006Lee Rainie

This is a discussion of the eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today's teens and twenty-somethings.

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Report

Surfing for Fun

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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Media Mention

Tech-savvy teen girls
Older girls are `power users' among wired youngsters, a study finds

Chris Cobbs, Orlando Sentinel

Jul 28, 2005

"While working a part-time job at an engineering firm, Edgewater High School senior Michelle Tyrlik scrimped and saved for seven months so she could fulfill a longtime dream: to buy her own laptop.

"My parents didn't help me buy it, and it's the first...

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Infographic

The tasks of everyday life and the internet

Aug 11, 2004

While nearly all Internet users conducted some of their day-to-day activities online in 2004, most still defaulted to the traditional offline ways of communicating, transacting affairs, getting information and entertaining themselves.

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Report

The Internet and Daily Life

Aug 11, 2004Deborah Fallows

The vast majority of online Americans say the Internet plays a role in their daily routines and that the rhythm of their everyday lives would be affected if they could no longer go online. Yet, despite its great popularity and allure, the Internet st...

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