Internet & Technology

While South Korea has launched a boot camp for internet addicts, don't expect any in the U.S. too soon.

Is video gaming becoming the next family bonding activity?

Half of all Americans now have broadband at home, according to the Pew Internet Project's September 2007 survey, marking the first time that as many as 50% of respondents say they have high-speed internet connections at home. This milestone in broad...

Imperfect or absent data are rarely mentioned in policy discussions. Yet the communications policy debate in the United States today is inseparable from debates about the data used to make claims about policy propositions. Policymakers are beginning ...

Should I Classmate, Mixi or Orkut? A simpleton's guide to social networking.

MySpace, Facebook, OpenSocial … technology keeps pushing us to be social online. Do we even have a choice anymore?

This is a general discussion of the hallmarks of the new digital ecosystem and some of the changes that have occurred to people's relationship to each other and people's relationship to information and media.

How is Facebook planning to make money?

This is a rundown of the Pew Internet & American Life Project's most recent findings related to internet use, especially Web 2.0 activities. It also goes through the Project's new tech-user typology and the implications of the Project's findings f...

Recently the Pew Internet Project conducted an informal, online survey about people's "personal history of internet use." There was an amazing richness to the personal stories we received and this is a selection of what you had to say.