report | Jun 18, 2009
Bloggers and social media were consumed with two events in the last week that triggered an online debate about political extremism—one in Europe and one in Washington D.C. And the most-viewed news video on YouTube was the start of a feud between David Letterman and Sarah Palin.
short reads | May 12, 2009
A quarter of Obama voters who use the internet posted political material online.
report | Apr 17, 2009
New survey data shows that not only is there a participatory class of citizen, but there is a participatory class of patient.
report | Apr 15, 2009
A majority of American adults went online in 2008 to keep informed about political developments and to get involved with the election.
report | Jan 21, 2009
Yesterday's inauguration was the first to be fully digitized, annotated and archived online.
report | Dec 30, 2008
Fully 46% of all Obama voters expect to hear directly from Barack Obama or other officials affiliated with the new administration at least occasionally over the next year, and 15% of Obama voters expect to hear from the new administration on at least...
report | Dec 30, 2008
Voters expect that the level of public engagement they experienced with Barack Obama during the campaign, much of it occurring online, will continue into the early period of his new administration.
report | Dec 5, 2008
After a presidential race in which the internet played a huge role in empowering ordinary citizens to participate in the political process, change.gov offers a fascinating look into how the new administration is attempting to replicate this dynami...
report | Dec 4, 2008
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.
report | Dec 4, 2008
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...