55% of adult Americans have home broadband connections
There was no growth in broadband adoption among poorer families or blacks, while growth was strong among rural residents, older Americans, and those in households earning $20,000 to $40,000
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Home Broadband 2008
Some 55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007.
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The Future of the Pew Internet Project
July 1 marks the first day of our new two-year grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Cyberbullying: What the research is telling us
This presentation covers basic internet connectivity statistics before launching into a discussion of the major online safety issues. Broken down into issues of online contact vs online content, the talk shares data on online stranger contact, sex…
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Anthropology of YouTube
The Library of Congress invited Michael Wesch to deliver the third of four “Digital Natives” lectures. Wesch, creator of the world-famous YouTube video, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” presented the “Anthropology of YouTube” to a packed, fascinated …
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Participatory Medicine at NIH
I always suspect that audience members have as much to share as I have to say. So when Mary Madden and I received an invitation to speak at the Na…
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Data and Insights on Minority Populations
Our sample sizes for health surveys have been too small to do in-depth analysis on race/ethnicity and economic status. One challenge is that a significant portion of the respondent pool refuses to answer the household income question (the refusal…
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Campaign ’08 Online
Lee Rainie appeared on the NewsHour to discuss the findings.
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China’s earthquake and 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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Information Therapy Conference
The Information Therapy conference just ended on Friday and my head is buzzing with a few favorite moments.