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Report
Sep 2, 2010Amanda Lenhart
Adults make just as many calls, but text less often than teens. Americans say their mobile phones make them feel safer and more connected, but are irritated by cell intrusions and rudeness by other users.
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Media Mention
Doug Gross, CNN
Sep 2, 2010
CNN) -- Grown-ups don't text as much as teens -- at least not yet. A new survey suggests they may be catching up.
About 72 percent of adult mobile phone users send text messages with their phones, according to a report released Thursday from the P...
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Suzanne Choney, msnbc.com
Sep 2, 2010
More American adults have taken to texting in the past year, but teens still take the crown when it comes to using their phones for text-messaging, with 87 percent of them doing so, according to a new study.
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"We’ve reached a point where e...
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Commentary
Sep 1, 2010Susannah Fox
Technology use among foreign-born Latinos continues to lag significantly behind that of their U.S.-born counterparts.
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More in: Digital Divide, Race and Ethnicity , Mobile
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Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
Aug 19, 2010
NEW YORK — Facebook users carrying their smart phones will soon be able to "check in" to real-world locations such as bars, parks and live concerts as the social network makes its first foray into the location services craze.
"Where are you?" is j...
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More in: Social Networking, Mobile
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Teddy Wayne, New York Times
Aug 1, 2010
Nearly six in 10 Americans are now connected to the Internet wirelessly via a Wi-Fi connection, mobile broadband card or cellphone, compared to about half at this point last year, ...
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Presentation
Jul 29, 2010Kristen Purcell
In this international course, Kristen will share data on the growing mobile landscape both globally and in the US, highlight key aspects of today’s changing information ecology, and explore with librarians how they can leverage these two trends in th...
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More in: Libraries, Mobile, New Media Ecology
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Media Mention
Latoya Peterson, NPR
Jul 21, 2010
Since Barack Obama began stumping for the White House, he has made closing the digital divide a priority by my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5nQB">promising to provide broadband access for every American. And the president has been quietly putting plans in place to funnel ...
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More in: Mobile, Race and Ethnicity , Digital Divide
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Media Mention
Steve Evans, BBC's Americana
Jul 18, 2010
Presenter Stephen Evans crunches the numbers with Susannah Fox of The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and technology guru Megan McCarthy. They discuss what it is that Americans explore, accomplish and build when they spend hour...
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More in: Digital Divide, Seniors, Teens, Broadband, Mobile
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Commentary
Jul 13, 2010Susannah Fox
Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Our jumping-off point was the Pew Internet Project's latest research on internet penetration, mobile use, and the social l...
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More in: Health, Social Networking, Generations, Race and Ethnicity , Digital Divide, Mobile