Platforms & Services

Not content to stand by and let other people innovate for them, participant-entrepreneurs are creating the services, devices, and communities they need.

The internet does not replace health professionals, but rather provides a way for people to gather and share information in a rapid-learning system that can best be described as "participatory medicine."

Lee Rainie discusses social, economic, and political trends especially among the younger generation that have given rise to a new and emerging class of networked citizens.

An updated look at the research and definitions around bullying and cyberbullying. Presented to the Youth Online Safety Working Group assembled by NCMEC, Amanda's talk unpacks both what current research can tell us about cyberbullying as well as w...

Technology experts and stakeholders who participated in a recent survey believe online information will continue to be organized and made accessible in smarter and more useful ways in coming years.

Face-to-face interaction among teens is holding relatively steady, despite a spike in text messaging.

The internet gives citizens new paths to government services and information.

Free survey data about the impact of the internet, going back to the year 2000.

Highlights from some of the key presentations made at a National Institutes of Health workshop held in November 2009.

Lee Rainie will discuss the latest research findings on people's use of social media and how technology has affected some of the ways people learn, make decisions, and offer social supports to others.