Platforms & Services

A quarter of smartphone users go online mostly using their mobile device.

By every key measurement, college students lead the way in tech and gadget use. But community college students do not use digital tools as much as four-year college students and graduate students.

Lee Rainie gave a keynote address that looked at people's evolving use of the internet and mobile technologies and their attitudes about the role of the internet in their lives and the wider world.

Lee Rainie will discuss the Project’s latest findings about how people use mobile devices, and how the changing media ecosystem is affecting the way people receive, share, and create information.

Lee Rainie presents a compendium of recent data that focuses on key behavioral statistics of the Millennial Generation.

A majority of adults who use Facebook interact with the website at least daily.

35% of US adults own a smartphone of some kind, and one quarter of smartphone owners say that their phone is where they do most of their online browsing.

Along with asking about smartphone adoption and usage in our May 2011 survey, we also included a question that asked cell phone owners to provide the one word that best describes how they feel about their phones.

Criticism of a 2012 GOP presidential candidate dominated the conversation on blogs last week, while Twitter users got excited over a new social networking tool from Google. On YouTube, strange objects in the air over London generated the most views.

A discussion forum focused on using social networking and digital tools to reinvigorate democracy and extend electronic engagement from campaigns and grassroots-activism to governance.