Internet & Technology

Susannah Fox will speak at the Joslin Diabetes Center's annual innovation conference in Washington, DC.

https://legacy.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/10/02/on-twitter-dueling-views-on-the-shutdown-and-obamacare/ Methodology This analysis employed media research methods that combined Pew Research’s content analysis rules with computer coding software developed by Crimson Hexagon. This report is based on examinations of more than 1.5 million tweets. Crimson Hexagon is a software platform that identifies statistical patterns in words used in online texts. Researchers enter key terms […]

Two separate, but related conversations have been prominent on Twitter—one about the government shutdown and the other about President Obama's health care law, the landmark legislation at the heart of the Congressional impasse that triggered the shutdown.

Officials are hoping that the health exchange web sites will drive access and enrollment. But some of the groups most likely to not have health insurance are the same as those groups most likely to not be online.

This is the fourth year for the popular Unmentionables panel at Health 2.0, covering topics that aren't discussed in health care.

Four big points about the impact of technology on learning

Susannah Fox will be the kick-off speaker for a discussion of how data is transforming health and health care.

Today marks Google’s 15th birthday, which has prompted many users to reflect on what it was like to use the search engine circa 1998. We took the opportunity to look back at Americans’ habits to “Google themselves” during the first decade of the search engine’s life and found that, after an initial increase, the activity […]

Lee Rainie speaks about the Project’s latest research about the way people use libraries and the role they play in their communities.

A breakdown of how internet users go online, including those with home access and the type of access, is shown in this table.