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Jun 15, 2008CNET News
Once Barack Obama started Twittering, John McCain created a MySpace page, and Hillary Clinton joined Facebook, it became apparent that the 2008 presidential election was relying heavily on social media. But now, a Pew survey has the numbers to pro...
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Jun 15, 2008Associated Press
Americans dissatisfied with political sound bites are turning to the Internet for a more complete picture, a new study finds.
In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said that nearly 30 percent of adults have used the ...
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Jun 15, 2008ABC News
A record-breaking 46 percent of Americans have used the Internet to get political news and share their thoughts about the campaign this year, according to a survey released today by the Pew Research Center.
And while Sen. John McCain may hav...
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Apr 25, 2007St. Paul Pioneer Press
" More than a third of online American adults - 36 percent - use Wikipedia, according to a nationwide survey released Tuesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a nonprofit initiative funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Desp...
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Apr 24, 2007Associated Press Newswires
"Wikipedia's advocates like to tout its dynamic nature: Volunteers can quickly respond to new developments and errors in the collaborative online encyclopedia by adding or changing entries themselves.
So it may seem odd that Wikipedia vo...
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Jan 31, 2007Associated Press Newswires
"Internet users are taking avidly to sites that let them label photos, movies and blogs with their own descriptive tags, providing a major new way of organizing information online, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project....
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Jan 18, 2007San Francisco Chronicle
"Sen. Barack Obama updated the world on his presidential aspirations this week by posting a video to his new Web site, where the online response to the Illinois Democrat has been "overwhelming," aides said Wednesday.
The move was strategic,...
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Jan 18, 2007BBC News
"The report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project also found that more people are contributing to political debate via their own blogs.
While it stops short of claiming the net has politicised Americans, the report sees a growing ...
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Jan 17, 2007The Mercury News
"Candidates and those who run their campaigns have known for some time how the Internet has energized politics and reshuffled the old rules of how office-seekers, the media and the public operate. A study released Wednesday about online activities...
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Jan 17, 2007ABC News.com
"Americans turned in growing numbers to the Internet for political news and information during the 2006 U.S. congressional campaign, as Web videos and blogs became more widespread, a report on Wednesday said.
Fifteen percent of those survey...
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