Lee Rainie

Lee's lecture covered Pew's basic findings related to privacy and information disclosure.

Parents are more wired than non-parents and they are more enthusiastic about technology than non-parents and more likely to use the Web for health information, for their work or training, and for getting religious information.

Data provided by comScore Networks detailing the kinds of Web sites that are particularly appealing to college students, and the kinds of sites where a high proportion of shoppers are college students.

This speech covers our findings related to how people used the Internet just after the 9/11 terror attacks and our follow-up survey.

40 million Americans, one third of all Internet users, have looked online for information about a place to live.

Fifty-two million Americans have looked online for information about jobs, and more than 4 million do so on a typical day.

The presentation highlights our findings about how broadband users are different from dial-up users.

Those who have home broadband connections use the Internet differently from those who have dial-up connections. Broadband users spend more time online, do more things, and do them more often than dial-up Internet users.

Disease information, material about weight control, and facts about prescription drugs top the list of interests for health seekers. A typical health seeker searches for medical information only occasionally, and she relies on search engines and mult...

Information on the Web is important to significant numbers of Americans when they are making important choices related to education and job training, investments and big-ticket purchases, and health care for themselves or for loved ones. Online mater...