Platforms & Services

If today's essay on China piques your interest, check out some other dispatches from Deborah Fallows.

Summary of Findings Short videos produced for the internet are becoming an important component of campaign news. In some cases, candidates themselves are producing videos and releasing them on their campaign websites. Candidates also are seeing their own gaffes or embarrassing moments packaged in a brief video and put up on the web for all […]

The typical citizen response to discovering that their computer is part of a botnet: "I thought it was running slow recently."

47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.

About a third of online teens say they have been targets of online harassement. Older girls and intense internet users are the most likely to report these experiences.

Pew Internet's typology of information and communications technology users tells us a lot about how far along we are -- or aren't -- in the "information society."

The landline-less are different from regular telephone users in many of their opinions and their numbers are growing fast. Can survey researchers meet this challenge?

The number of cell-phone-only households has continued to grow -- 12.8% of all households by the end of 2006, according to the National Health Interview Survey. While the noncoverage problem is currently not damaging estimates for the entire population, a study finds evidence that it does create biased estimates on certain variables for young adults, 25% of whom are cell-only.

In China, there is a virtual meeting place for people who have social connections to buy or sell.

12% of internet users participate in an online patient group.