Internet & Technology

Media-Smart Youth expert panel discussion on the integration of the internet into daily life and what this means for educational programs that seek to engage youth through new media.

At a Federal Trade Commission brownbag, Amanda Lenhart reviewed four years of Pew Internet data on youth and mobile phones as well as Pew findings on youth and video games.

This presentation dives into the demographics of teen and adult social network users and looks at how youth use of social networks compares to use by adults, both in frequency, but also in purpose and behavior.

The number of online adults who use classified ads websites, such as Craigslist, more than doubled from 2005 to 2009.

John B. Horrigan will participate on a panel entitled "Scarcity, Diversity, Efficiency: Media Structure Regulation Reconsidered" at the Quello Center's 2009 Communication Law and Policy Symposium. The title for this year's symposium is "Rethinking...

Take the quiz to find out where you fit in the typology of technology users.

This talk surveys the current research on cyberbullying and online harassment, pulling in Pew Internet data as well as the work of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, Internet Solutions for Kids and othe...

A quarter of Obama voters who use the internet posted political material online.

The public ranks the internet most useful as a source of information on the virus. Where and how are people finding flu facts online?

Participatory medicine is taking hold with both citizens and health professionals. But there are still pockets of people who lack access to the basic technology, lack the skills required to participate, or who may lack the sense that they are welc...