Platforms & Services

Our colleagues at the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism have developed a New Media Index and are unveiling it today.

Contrary to the image of Generation Y as the "Net Generation," internet users in their 20s do not dominate every aspect of online life. Generation X is the most likely group to bank, shop, and look for health information online.

This is a series of charts related to the "Generations Online in 2009" report released on Jan. 28, 2009.

Over half of the adult internet population is between 18 and 44 years old. But larger percentages of older generations are online now than in the past, and they are doing more activities online.

How can museums and libraries adjust to the new media ecosystem?

Our May 2008 survey asked dial-up users why they do not have a broadband connection at home and our December 2007 asked non-internet users about the reasons they do not use the internet. This table summarizes the results.

Investment in broadband has become part of the broader discussion about President Obama's economic stimulus package. How easy will it be to increase the pool of broadband subscribers or to encourage existing ones to upgrade their connection speeds?

Yesterday's inauguration was the first to be fully digitized, annotated and archived online.

The world that libraries and other organizations face can be seen as a new information ecosystem to which they can adapt.

This speech pulls together Pew Internet Project data about how people's use of the internet and cell phones has fundamentally changed the "information ecosystem" in 10 ways.