Internet and Technology Archives

reportJun 22, 2012

Libraries, patrons, and e-books

12% of e-book readers have borrowed an e-book from a library. Those who use libraries are pretty heavy readers, but most are not aware they can borrow e-books.
presentationJun 14, 2012

It Ain’t Heavy, It’s My Smartphone: American teens and the infiltration of mobility into their computing lives

Amanda Lenhart spoke at the 2012 Lawlor Summer Seminar in Minneapolis, where she discussed the rise in smartphone ownership among youth, the demographics of mobile phone ownership and the changes wrought as youth begin to have access anytime, anyw…
presentationJun 13, 2012

Mobile Philanthropy

How mobile/social tools are changing the way Americans give to and interact with organizations
reportJun 12, 2012

Video: peer-to-peer health care

A 5-minute video overview of peer-to-peer health care.
reportJun 8, 2012

Unpacking self-tracking

Pew Internet asked two questions about “self-tracking” in 2010 – how should we expand this area of our research?
presentationJun 7, 2012

Libraries 2020: Imagining the library of the (not too distant) future

Associate Director Kristen Purcell shares Pew Internet’s latest data on mobile, social networking, and e-reading in her keynote address for the 2012 State University of New York Librarians Association Annual Conference in New York City.
reportJun 6, 2012

Older adults and internet use

For the first time, half of American adults ages 65 and older are online.
presentationJun 5, 2012

Presentation: Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites

Amanda Lenhart spoke about how teens use technology and about youth social and emotional experiences in social media spaces.
presentationJun 5, 2012

Health Datapalooza

Susannah Fox will serve as a “white hat” advisor to participants in the Health Data Initiative Forum.
presentationMay 31, 2012

The Rise of Networked Information

Lee Rainie was the morning keynote speaker at the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s conference on May 31, discussing how people use technology to gather, share, and create information.

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Internet and Technology

Libraries, patrons, and e-books

It Ain’t Heavy, It’s My Smartphone: American teens and the infiltration of mobility into their computing lives

Unpacking self-tracking

Libraries 2020: Imagining the library of the (not too distant) future

Health Datapalooza