Broadband Adopton: Trends & Consequences
This presentation contains charts on trends in home broadband adoption, focusing on the 2005 to 2007 timeframe.
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This presentation contains charts on trends in home broadband adoption, focusing on the 2005 to 2007 timeframe.
A recent Minnesota Public Radio show on social networking sites and teens should be of special interest to parents, educators, researchers and anyone interested in the way digital communication is shaping the lives of young people.
The Federal Trade Commission’s Spam Summit was an occasion to celebrate the (limited) success of the CAN-SPAM Act and to discuss the latest criminal threats online.
The presidential hopefuls are using their web sites for unprecedented two-way communication with citizens. But what are voters learning here? Is it more than a way to bypass the media? A new PEJ study of 19 campaign sites finds Democrats are more interactive, Republicans are more likely to talk about “values,” and neither wants to talk about ideology.
If today’s essay on China piques your interest, check out some other dispatches from Deborah Fallows.
Summary of Findings Short videos produced for the internet are becoming an important component of campaign news. In some cases, candidates themselves are producing videos and releasing them on their campaign websites. Candidates also are seeing their own gaffes or embarrassing moments packaged in a brief video and put up on the web for all […]
The typical citizen response to discovering that their computer is part of a botnet: “I thought it was running slow recently.”
47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.
About a third of online teens say they have been targets of online harassement. Older girls and intense internet users are the most likely to report these experiences.
Pew Internet’s typology of information and communications technology users tells us a lot about how far along we are — or aren’t — in the "information society."
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