Trends in medical searches online: How e-patients use the internet
New trend charts showing how e-patients use the internet and search for health information online.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Trends: The Social Life of Health Information
Connected patients spread new ideas, new treatments, and new ways of approaching a condition. Put them on your team.
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The Twitter Question
How we measure Twitter and status updating (and an invitation to help us improve).
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The New Library User and how to Serve Her (and Him)
A look at the new needs and experiences of information seekers and media makers
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Portrait of a Twitter user: Status update demographics
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of inter…
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The Magic of Social Networks
Libraries can play a role in people’s social networks in the future.
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Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others–up from 11% in April.
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Are opportunities for online engagement bringing new voices into the civic debate?
Aaron Smith discusses the role the Internet plays in opening civic and political debate to historically underrepresented groups.
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Adults on Social Network Sites, 2005-2009
The percentage of adult internet users on social network sites from 2005-2009. From Amanda Lenhart’s presentation, The Democratization of Online Social Networks.
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The Democratization of Online Social Networks
A look at the changes in demographics of social network users since 2005.