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Media Mention
Steve Monfort, NASDAQ
Aug 14, 2009
The poll from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 69 percent of Americans had used the internet to find shopping bargains, investment tips, government benefits and job tools. This was said to amount to 88 percent of all internet use...
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Report
Jul 15, 2009Lee Rainie, Aaron Smith
Some 69% of Americans have used the internet to cope with the recession as they hunt for bargains, jobs, ways to upgrade their skills, better investment strategies, housing options, and government benefits.
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AFP
Jul 15, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) — More than half of adult Americans have been hard hit by the recession and two-thirds have turned to the Web for help in coping and understanding the downturn, a survey published Wednesday found.
The Pew Internet and American Lif...
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S. John Tilak, Reuters
Jul 15, 2009
BANGALORE (Reuters) - It's not just family and friends that Americans are turning to for advice and support to cope with the prolonged recession; many have found a counselor in the Internet.
More than two-thirds of American adults -- or 88 percent...
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Jack Gillum, USA Today
Jun 27, 2009
...As word spread around the globe, search terms ran the gamut: Phrases including "Michael Jackson cardiac arrest," and "Michael Jackson death hoax" accounted for more than half of Google's top 100 most-searched phrases on Thursday, a trend the compa...
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C-SPAN
Apr 18, 2009
Mr. Smith discusses a new report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project looking at the use of the Internet in the 2008 campaigns. The report found that nearly three-quarters of Internet users went online to participate in or get news about the...
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Report
Apr 15, 2009Aaron Smith
A majority of American adults went online in 2008 to keep informed about political developments and to get involved with the election.
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Commentary
Feb 17, 2009Susannah Fox
Lee Rainie's speech at the Integrated Media Association meeting was a hit on Twitter.
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Presentation
Feb 17, 2009Lee Rainie
This speech pulls together Pew Internet findings and analysis about how people get news and relate to news items in the digital age.
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