Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
Political-minded folks flock to Net
1/17/2007 | 
Coverage
Marilyn Geewax, Cox News Service , Denver Post, Nation/World
'"The Internet has become such a force in politics that 30 million Americans used it as their primary source of campaign information last fall, more than twice as many as during the 2002 midterm elections, according to a study released Wednesday.
The nonpartisan Pew Internet Project found that in the run-up to the November election, 15 percent of U.S. adults relied upon the Internet as their No. 1 provider of political information, up from 7 percent, or just 14 million Americans, in the 2002 election.
Among adults younger than 36, the trend was even clearer: more than a third saw the Internet as their main source of political news, the report said.
To be sure, television remains the nation's chief news provider.
On any given day in November, 61 percent of Americans watched a TV news program, 38 percent read a newspaper and 21 percent turned to the Internet for news.
But John Horrigan, an author of the study based upon phone interviews with a sample of 2,562 adults, said Internet use is gaining rapidly, even among devoted TV and newspaper fans.
"For political news, the Internet is an important supplement for a fairly substantial swath of Americans," he said.
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