Internet & Technology

As we've seen during this election season, participating online can also motivate users to participate offline.

Political fund-raising, campaigning, blogging and YouTubing are all on the rise, but they're still a small part of the election scene.

One in five adults in this country are disconnected from the just-in-time information source that the internet has become for many people.

Is the internet the lever for direct democracy? Or is it a wedge for political polarization? An assessment of the first 10 years of online politics.

More than a third or 35% of online adults create content online, and 57% of teenagers 12-17 make their own content to post to the Web. Younger users and home broadband users are the most avid content creators, and most post their creations online ...

Recent Pew Internet Project research examines technology use by teenagers and suggests how the behavior and expectations of young internet users might shape the libraries of the future.

Very few check the source and date of the information they find.

Most internet users start at a search engine when looking for health information online. Very few check the source and date of the information they find.

This presentation covers the media and communications environment of today's teenagers and young adults and how that new environment has affected their expectations and behaviors about media, communication, and creation.

Political pollsters continue to cast a wary eye on the growing number of Americans who use only a cell phone and have no landline. The Pew Research Center estimates that this group now constitutes one-in-ten adults. But three Pew surveys of cell-only Americans this year have found that their absence from landline surveys is not creating a measurable bias in the bottom-line findings.