Platforms & Services

Director Lee Rainie spoke about how the technology revolution has changed the way people interact and create communities.

55% of smartphone owners use their phones to get location-based directions or recommendations, while geosocial services and location-tagging features are less popular.

As online college courses have become increasingly prevalent, the general public and college presidents offer different assessments of their educational value.

Women maintain their foothold on social networking site use, and older Americans are still coming aboard. Most users describe their experiences in positive terms.

Mobile devices help solve problems, but also create new annoyances.

Search and email remain the two online activities that are nearly universal among adult internet users.

The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.

How the internet is transforming health communications by providing us with access to information and each other.

Fully 71% of online Americans use video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. Rural internet users have caught up to others in their use of these sites, and minorities are more likely than whites to visit them.

More than a third of adults own a smartphone.