Platforms & Services

What would a world in which citizens set the news agenda rather than editors look like? A new PEJ study comparing user-news sites, like Digg, Del.icio.us,and Reddit, with mainstream news outlets provides some initial answers. The snapshot suggests both a drastically different set of topics and information sources.

On Monday, an interview I did with Lexi Ramage of Youth Voices on social networks and perceptions of safety aired

Grumpy Broadband Users Call into WYPR's Marc Steiner Show

There's a lot of ongoing discussion in the internet research world about how often relationships initiated online end up evolving into offline, in-person meetings.

As we reported earlier this year, more Americans than ever say the volume of spam in their inboxes is increasing.

Keeping an eye on the Dr. Google vs. Dr. Microsoft horserace.

In what's promising to be one of the more entertaining intellectual property court hearings to date, comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have been requested as witnesses in the Viacom vs. YouTube case.

Remember the anticipation you felt on your first day of college? Showing up to your dorm and wondering what your freshman year roommate would be like? You might have even spoken with your assigned roommate on the phone, and maybe you were wonder...

Reports on monitoring and censorship of Chinese internet content, particularly news and blogs, are familiar to westerners. We are less familiar with editorials praising a Party official's meeting with a "netizen," wishing for a day when it was les...

A new issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication was recently published online, with articles on topics ranging from Facebook to online fantasy sports.