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Media Mention
Claire Cain Miller, New York Times
Oct 22, 2009
For many people, cellphones have become indispensable appendages that make calls, deliver e-mail messages, locate restaurants and identify the song on the radio. After 20 years, 85 percent of adult Americans have cellphones, according to the Pew Inte...
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Presentation
Oct 7, 2009Lee Rainie
In this talk to medical librarians, Lee Rainie covered how e-patients and their caregivers have become a force in the medical world. In addition, he looked at the many ways that e-patients are using the internet to research and respond to their healt...
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Presentation
Oct 2, 2009Mary Madden
As the internet population has matured over time, binary distinctions between those who are online and offline have given way to a more robust understanding of the assets, actions and attitudes that affect user experience.
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Presentation
Sep 16, 2009Lee Rainie
Pew Internet Project data about changes in the online world, different technology users, and how those changes might affect public radio programming.
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Commentary
Sep 1, 2009Lee Rainie
My appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi talk show on WAMU (a Washington PBS station) about new research on the problems with mutitasking.
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Media Mention
John D. Sutter, CNN
Jun 10, 2009
Do you ever get sick of your phone ringing? What about Facebook fatigue? Does Twitter sometimes give you stress headaches, making you occasionally wish you could just yank the plug on your online life?
Well, you're not alone, according to a recent ...
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Commentary
May 18, 2009John Horrigan
Take the quiz to find out where you fit in the typology of technology users.
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Media Mention
icyou.com
May 6, 2009
Susannah Fox discusses the latest research on e-patients, including now many people are engaging in social media for health. Fox also gives advice for how patients can avoid information overload when going online. Also, find out why she says "going m...
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Presentation
Apr 23, 2009John Horrigan
John B. Horrigan discusses how users shape the mobile ecosystem by comparing adoption of the mobile net to adoption of the desktop internet of the 1990s and by focusing on the "motivated by mobility" groups from the Project's The Mobile Difference re...
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Media Mention
Diego Vasquez , Media Life Magazine
Apr 7, 2009
They’re young, they’re heavily connected, and they’re not at all pleased about it. They’re called the ambivalent networkers, and they represent a surprising but apparently very real backlash against our increasingly wired lives, according to a new re...
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