The Broadband Difference
The presentation highlights our findings about how broadband users are different from dial-up users.
The Broadband Difference: How online behavior changes with high-speed Internet connections
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.
Vital Decisions: A Pew Internet Health Report
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...
Use of the Internet at Major Life Moments
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...
The Rise of the E-Citizen: How People Use Government Agencies’ Web Sites
Sixty-eight million Americans have used the Web sites of government agencies, a figure up from 40 million such users two years ago. They exploit their new access to government in wide-ranging ways, finding information to further their civic, professi...
The Commons of the Tragedy
The speech covers our basic findings about how people used the Internet immediately after 9/11.
Getting Serious Online: As Americans Gain Experience, They Pursue More Serious Activities
As Americans gain experience online, they use the Internet more for their jobs, to make more online purchases and carry out other financial transactions, and to write emails with more significant and intimate content.
The Rise of the E-Citizen
Covers our basic findings related to how people use government Web sites.
Women surpass men as e-shoppers during the holidays
2001 holiday season sees more e-commerce, and more online socializing Washington, D.C.–Women topped men in holiday online shopping – 58% of those who bought gifts online during the most recent shopping season were women. This is part of a broader story about advances in e-tailing as more people spent more money this year compared to […]
Holidays Online 2001
Online Holiday shopping grew this season from the previous, though Internet users also increasingly use the Internet during the holiday season to search for information on travel, holiday crafts, recipes and traditions.
