Aaron Smith

How people monitor and maintain their identity through search and social media.

A joint study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Internet & American Life Project takes an up-to-date look at the potential biases in findings based on landline-only surveys.

How do we explain the disparity between African-Americans' and Hispanics' views of the importance of government social media versus whites?

The internet gives citizens new paths to government services and information.

Research Specialist Aaron Smith discusses online participation and social media at the 2009 Symposium on Racing and Gaming in Tucson.

Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others--up from 11% in April.

Aaron Smith discusses the role the Internet plays in opening civic and political debate to historically underrepresented groups.

Research specialist Aaron Smith will be a panelist at the first panel of BroadbandCensus.com's series “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan.” The panelists will consider the FCC’s summer broadband workshops, and how individuals and en...

Three-quarters of online economic users go online to relax and take their minds off of the recession. Fully 88% of 18-29 year old online economic users look to the internet to relax.

Just as in offline politics, the well-off and well-educated are especially likely to participate in online activities that mirror offline forms of engagement. But there are hints that social media may alter this pattern.