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Dec 4, 2008John Horrigan
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 h...
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Nov 16, 2008John Horrigan, Sydney Jones
Half (48%) of tech users need help from others in getting new devices and services to work, and many experience tech outages when there is a glitch with their home internet connection, computer, or cell phone. Coping with these failures is a hassl...
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Aug 26, 2008Susannah Fox
People turn to the internet for health information when the stakes are high and the connection fast.
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Jul 9, 2008Susannah Fox, Jessica Vitak
Three "thermometers" of access show the disparities among various groups when it comes to internet access, cell phone use, and broadband access at home.
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Jul 2, 2008John Horrigan
Some 55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection
at home. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007.
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Mar 11, 2008John Horrigan
The speech discusses evolving online usage patterns. The drivers of changing usage patterns are the emergence of "always present" digital information access enabled by mobile wireless, to go with growth of "always on" home broadband connections.
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Feb 20, 2008Susannah Fox, Jessica Vitak
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has created three "thermometers" of digital access: internet, cell phone, and home broadband connections.
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Feb 14, 2008Susannah Fox
Many Americans are jumping into the participatory Web without considering all the implications. If nothing really bad has happened to someone, they tend neither to worry about their personal information nor to take steps to limit the amount of in...
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More in: Mobile, Web 2.0, Broadband, New Media Ecology
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Nov 14, 2007John Horrigan
Half of all Americans now have broadband at home, according to the Pew Internet Project's September 2007 survey, marking the first time that as many as 50% of respondents say they have high-speed internet connections at home. This milestone in br...
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Nov 14, 2007John Horrigan, Kenneth Flamm, William Lehr, Amy Friedlander
Imperfect or absent data are rarely mentioned in policy discussions. Yet the communications policy debate in the United States today is inseparable from debates about the data used to make claims about policy propositions. Policymakers are beginni...
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