Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Internet and Technology

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    The Internet and the 2008 Election

    A record-breaking 46% of Americans have already used the internet for politics this election season and Barack Obama’s backers have an edge.

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    The internet and the 2008 election

    A record-breaking 46% of Americans have already used internet for politics this election season and Obama backers have an edge

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    Information Therapy Conference

    The Information Therapy conference just ended on Friday and my head is buzzing with a few favorite moments.

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    What has China’s earthquake done to its internet?

    People say the Chinese internet is mostly an entertainment network. But looking at what happened online during the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake reveals a Chinese internet with a depth and soul and much, much more.

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    Online child safety and literacy

    This presentation pulls together Pew Internet Project research about teenagers’ online activities, their behavior on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and their Web 2.0 content creation activities. It covers the threats posed b…

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    Participatory Medicine at NIH

    In this presentation, Mary Madden and Susannah Fox discuss the rise of participatory medicine within the context of key internet demographics and emerging online trends.

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    Polling in the age of cell phones

    Introduction In the past few years, the growing number of Americans living in households without landline telephones has challenged survey researchers to develop a variety of approaches to deal with this non-coverage issue. One approach is to add interviews over the cell phone to traditional random digit dial surveys of landline telephones.1 Adding cell phone […]

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    Old media and new media blur just a little more

    In what could be considered a further blurring of traditional media and new forms of digital media, this weekend’s cover story in the New York Times Magazine features the intimate autobiographical account of Emily Gould, blogger and former Gawker …

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    Dispatches and Data from China

    Senior Research Fellow Deborah Fallows has been living in China for the past two years, sending us whimsical dispatches as well as in-depth reports about the impact of the internet on social life.