Internet & Technology

Online social networking is both about connecting to others through publicily displayed networks and about creating self-expressive content.

This presentation contains a general overview of the internet population, an analysis of African Americans and the internet, and some thoughts about the internet’s impact on health and health care.

Online banking is holding steady as a mainstream internet activity, growing along with internet use generally, though not accelerating as have some other forms of online activities.

The first tropical storm of 2006 washes up interesting emails.

This speech describes how the internet is forcing change in learnnig and work environments, as well as how people are using digital media in different ways from the past.

Our recent survey about how Americans use and think about their mobile phones revealed notable differences between Latino cell users and whites.

Not only is there evidence of a reawakening of young people to public life, but today's youth are politically distinctive in many ways.

Adoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005. Middle-income Americans accounted for much of the increase.

Fully 87% of teens go online, compared to just 32% of Americans age 65+. This leads, of course, to a wide gap when it comes to computer skills; there is less of a gap when it comes to the some of the activities each group pursues online.

The representativeness of technology surveys might benefit by supplementing random digital dial survey samples with samples of cell phone users.