Platforms & Services

The percentage of teen cell phone owners who have done the following activities with their cell phones, by age.

Text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as the centerpiece of their communication strategies with friends.

Senior research staff answer questions from readers relating to all the areas covered by our seven projects, ranging from polling techniques and findings, to media, technology, religious, demographic and global attitudes trends.

Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, discusses how technology is helping "networked individuals" reshape their relationship to media, to information, and to each other.

Information permeates all aspects of our lives and this changes people's behaviors and expectations.

How the internet and cell phones have changed the way that people relate to organizations and participate in communities.

What does the internationalization of information mean for patients and health professionals? What are the strengths - and weaknesses - of online patient communities?

Technology experts and stakeholders believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.

The back-story on the report, "Chronic Disease and the Internet," including answers to questions about probability vs. causality and why we included quotes from patients throughout the analysis.

People living with chronic disease are disproportionately offline. And yet, those who are online have a trump card: They have each other. They gather and share information; they learn from their peers; and they just keep going.