Social Media

Last week my colleague, Amanda Lenhart, appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi show to talk about the opportunities and hazards that come with using social networking sites.

The most prominent narrative in social media online last week shifted from the stimulus bill to a critique of Obama’s first month in office. While the economic crisis was still a large topic, a policy change at Facebook created an uproar that forced the site to then change course.

Lee Rainie's speech at the Integrated Media Association meeting was a hit on Twitter.

Along with communicating extensively via untethered mobile devices, Twitter users are more likely to consume news and information on these devices as well.

As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.

The social networking juggernaut Facebook turns five years old today, and the chatter online about the birthday ranges from congratulatory to cautionary.

Our colleagues at the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism have developed a New Media Index and are unveiling it today.

Yesterday's inauguration was the first to be fully digitized, annotated and archived online.

This speech pulls together Pew Internet Project data about how people's use of the internet and cell phones has fundamentally changed the "information ecosystem" in 10 ways.

The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% at the end of 2008.