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May 7, 2012Lee Rainie, Susannah Fox
86% of smartphone owners used their phone in the past month to make real-time queries to help them meet friends, solve problems, or settle arguments
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The information ecosystem has changed radically in the internet and cell-phone era. That has affected the way people relate to each other and the way they relate to information.
Doug Gross, CNN
Mar 1, 2010
(CNN) -- More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report. Sixty-one percent of Americans said they get th...
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Claire Cain Miller, New York Times | Bits Blog
The new news junkie looks very different from even five years ago. Now, she is likely to scan the headlines on her phone in the morning, check a handful of different Web sites over the course of the day and click on links that friends have e-mailed o...
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Feb 11, 2010Lee Rainie
Director Lee Rainie was invited to be a keynote speaker at VALA2010 in Melbourne.
More in: New Media Ecology, Libraries
Jan 1, 2010
This data set contains questions about people's online news seeking behavior. It was used in the report "Understanding the Participatory News Consumer".
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Dec 2, 2009Lee Rainie
How technology has affected the way “digital natives” search for, gather and act on information.
More in: Education, Web 2.0, Teens, New Media Ecology
David Inge, NPR | Focus 580
Nov 30, 2009
An interview with Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, discussing the recent Pew Internet report ...
More in: Communities, Families, Social Networking, New Media Ecology
Nov 20, 2009Lee Rainie
Recent trends in Internet and mobile use and how information seekers come in different shapes and sizes.
More in: Teens, Education, Libraries, New Media Ecology
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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Jonnelle Marte, Wall Street Journal | Digits
Nov 13, 2009
Are heavy Internet users living in an isolated virtual bubble, devoid of face-to-face human interaction? Or has the Web made us more connected to people? A recent study by the Pew Research Center makes a case for the latter, finding that while the...
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Bettina Edelstein, J.D. Biersdorfer and Pedro Rafael Rosado, New York Times
Nov 11, 2009
The New York Times's Tech Talk for November 11, 2009 includes an interview with Keith Hampton, lead author of a new study from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project on social isolation and technology, discussing the report. You c...
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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.