Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

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    Health Care Consumerism

    Deloitte has created a new health consumer typology that is worth checking out, despite their reliance on an online-only sample.

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    Libraries Solve Problems

    Can libraries hack it in the internet age? A Pew Internet study finds that the public says “yes, and there are further ‘market opportunities’ to explore.”

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    Keeping tabs on our Google twins

    A recent New York Times article suggests another reason why people are motivated to search for content connected to their names online: to check up on how their “Google twins” are doing from time to time.

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    Team China

    Another example of how Chinese newspapers, websites, and internet users react in harmony and rally on many issues: “People ‘sign up’ to slam media bias.”

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    Libraries Solve Problems

    This presentation focuses on the Project’s findings about the role of libraries when Americans are trying to solve problems.

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    Teens and Privacy Story on NPR

    Pew Internet Project researcher Mary Madden recently appeared on “All Things Considered” to discuss teens, social networking and privacy choices online.

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    “Self-literacy” in the information age

    Over time, we may change the way we think about the persistence of the information we share in public and semi-public spaces. But at the moment, many adults are blissfully unaware of even the most basic information that might be found through a si…

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    Digital Footprints

    In the era of Web 2.0, individuals and organizations have gone beyond simply being findable to being intimately knowable. These digital footprints are blazing trails and stirring up issues about how we manage our own online identities and those of…