Social Media

Media-Smart Youth expert panel discussion on the integration of the internet into daily life and what this means for educational programs that seek to engage youth through new media.

This presentation dives into the demographics of teen and adult social network users and looks at how youth use of social networks compares to use by adults, both in frequency, but also in purpose and behavior.

The number of online adults who use classified ads websites, such as Craigslist, more than doubled from 2005 to 2009.

Participatory medicine is taking hold with both citizens and health professionals. But there are still pockets of people who lack access to the basic technology, lack the skills required to participate, or who may lack the sense that they are welc...

Lee Rainie discussed the Project’s research about how the internet and cell phones are affecting citizens and how government agencies have new opportunities to plug into citizens’ social networks as they try to solve problems in their lives.

New survey data shows that not only is there a participatory class of citizen, but there is a participatory class of patient.

This talk presents an overview of Pew Internet project data on teens and social media, including teen tech tool ownership, communication patterns over social networks and mobile phones as well analysis of how young adults 18-29 seeking health info...

Lee Rainie discussed Pew Internet's latest tech-user findings and why they suggest that libraries can play a role in people’s social networks in the future.

About one-in-ten online adults have used Twitter or a similar service.

Wondering how to describe social media and Web 2.0? Trying to figure out what happens next? Read Bruce Sterling's latest speech, "The Brief But Glorious Life of Web 2.0, and What Comes After."