Social Media

About a third of the U.S. public calls social networking sites such as Facebook a change for the better.

Do people consider the internet itself a kind of social ally? Not directly, but they often treat the internet as they would a helpful friend.

A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more soci...

For a host of reasons, the new administration needs to develop a national broadband strategy but research suggests that users must be central actors in its design.

There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have...

Facebook has recently announced the rollout of a new feature called Facebook Connect, which will allow users to login to other websites using their Facebook identity and which will then potentially feed back to a user's network information about ...

I presented our latest data on social media and health to the Center for Connected Health's 2008 Symposium in Boston.

Earlier in October, Amanda Lenhart participated in a round table discussion on online social networks at the Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference in Copenhagen.

The internet has changed people's expectations of their relationship with health professionals. One possible next step is the concept of participatory medicine.

Today we released new data that helps to trace the outline of the cloud in "cloud computing."