Social Media

Here's a rundown of what worked and what didn't in using Twitter for our research of three local news ecosystems.

And more think keeping up with local news has gotten easier than harder, according to our analysis of the media landscape in three U.S. cities.

In our survey of thousands of people across 32 emerging and developing nations, we found some notable data points that might have been lost in the fray.

Nearly two years after Snowden's revelations, 87% of Americans say they have heard about U.S. surveillance programs. Among them, 25% say they have changed their own technological behaviors in some way.

Pew Research Center's new report examines the local news environment in three U.S. metropolitan areas of different population size and demographic makeup.

Lee Rainie discusses the rise of the internet of things and how all the data it creates will enrich the picture we have about what is happening in communities and media.

President Obama's recent interviews with Buzzfeed and Vox, and his embrace of online news and social media more generally, stands in a long tradition of presidents employing novel communications technologies to speak to Americans directly.

YouTube has become one of the most visited websites in the world. The video-sharing firm says that 100 hours of video are uploaded there every minute.

Latinos, blacks and whites use social media networks about equally, but there are some differences in their preferences for specific social media sites.