Platforms & Services

About four-in-ten smartphone owners say they used their phones recently to look up a sports score.

Amy Mitchell, Deputy Director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, answers questions about PEJ's report on the emergence of YouTube as a major platform for viewing news.

The conversation on Twitter about the Penn State scandal has shifted focus over the last month from the man convicted of sexual abuse to the school and then to the NCAA. But one constant in the conversation has not budged—views of Joe Paterno.

While most news videos posted to YouTube by individuals are made up of raw footage, news organizations post primarily edited videos.

According to our April 2012 survey, 82% of American adults use the internet and 66% have a high-speed broadband connection at home. Here's a closer look at internet use versus broadband use by various demographic groups.

At the 19th International AIDS Conference, Susannah Fox shared a social history of the internet - our national story and her grandmother's story.

Susannah Fox will present Pew Internet's latest data on social media use in the U.S.

While many see promise in the future of data analysis, some fear that work with gigantic stores of information could lead to privacy abuses and mistaken forecasts

Presenting our research to a roomful, not just a row full, of rare-disease patients and caregivers was an extraordinary experience.

52% of adult cell owners use their phones while engaging with televised content; younger audiences are particularly active in these "connected viewing" experiences