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Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
Mar 17, 2010Washington Post
Mary Madden, senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center's Internet and & American Life Project, said 72 percent of millennials use social networking sites daily, compared with 40 percent of adults 30 or older. She said young ...
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Mar 16, 2010The Center for Sustainable Journalism
Yesterday Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released its annual “State of the News Media 2010” report. Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, pr...
Mar 16, 2010Wall Street Journal | Digits
Is it cyberbullying if kids post mean comments and then say they were “just joking”? Is it wrong for a boy to pressure his girlfriend to send racy text messages? For teenagers, these questions don’t necessarily have clear answers. MTV i...
Mar 15, 2010San Francisco Chronicle
In a relatively short time, the dot-com revolution has "woven itself into every nook and cranny of the commercial world," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, a Washington think tank that st...
Mar 15, 2010Washington Post | Post Tech
Mary Madden, a senior researcher at the Pew Center’s Internet & American Life Project, said with social networking becoming mainstream, there are bound to be missteps by Web sites that will challenge users’ views of privacy online.
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Mar 12, 2010New York Times
Although there is no formal process to approve the Web services and applications that use Facebook Connect, the company says it has a team that keeps close watch on it to curtail spam and other illicit activity. Amanda Lenhart, a resear...
Mar 5, 2010The Boston Globe
When Elisa Kreisinger wanted to protest the newly diminished visibility of gay characters and story lines on television, she didn’t launch a petition drive or write an angry op-ed piece. Instead, like many other members of the YouTube generation f...
Mar 3, 2010US News and World Report
WEDNESDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- The Internet has made vast amounts of health information available to the general public, but all that virtual "noise" has made people more likely than ever to trust their doctor with medical decisions, a new...
Mar 1, 2010CNN
(CNN) -- More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report. Sixty-one percent of Americans said ...
Mar 1, 2010New York Times | Bits Blog
The new news junkie looks very different from even five years ago. Now, she is likely to scan the headlines on her phone in the morning, check a handful of different Web sites over the course of the day and click on links that friends have e-maile...
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.