Publications

According to our April 2012 survey, 82% of American adults use the internet and 66% have a high-speed broadband connection at home. Here's a closer look at internet use versus broadband use by various demographic groups.

At the 19th International AIDS Conference, Susannah Fox shared a social history of the internet - our national story and her grandmother's story.

Overview About half of the public says they very closely followed news about the deadly shooting rampage shortly after midnight Friday morning in a movie theater in Colorado, making this one of the most closely followed stories so far in 2012. Fully 48% say they followed this news very closely, according to the latest survey […]

Susannah Fox will present Pew Internet's latest data on social media use in the U.S.

Faith in capitalism has fallen in Europe, with 58% of the public saying that most people are better off in a free market economy.

Christianity is the dominant religion in the Americas, with 86% of the population, or 804,070,000 people identified as Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox or some other Christian religious faith.

On the issue of gun control, Americans have become more conservative in recent years, with 49% now putting the priority on protecting the right of Americans to own guns.

Experts say new forms of information analysis will help people be more nimble and adaptive, but worry over humans’ capacity to understand and use these new tools well