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Oct 11, 2010San Jose Mercury News
Yet the inference that technology and the Internet is making us feel more lonesome may simply be incorrect, researchers say today. Yes, loneliness does affect a broad spectrum of people, but technology cannot be the only scapegoat.
In f...
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Jun 11, 2010New York Times
A report issued Wednesday by the Pew Research Center found that only 43 percent of Americans know all or most of their neighbors by name. Twenty-nine percent know only som...
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Nov 30, 2009NPR | Focus 580
An interview with Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, discussing the recent Pew Inter...
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Nov 20, 2009NPR | On the Media
Social scientists have long suspected that the internet contributes to our growing isolation. But Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American...
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Nov 13, 2009Wall Street Journal | Digits
Are heavy Internet users living in an isolated virtual bubble, devoid of face-to-face human interaction? Or has the Web made us more connected to people?
A recent study by the Pew Research Center makes a case for the latter, finding tha...
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Nov 11, 2009New York Times
The New York Times's Tech Talk for November 11, 2009 includes an interview with Keith Hampton, lead author of a new study from the Pew Research Cent...
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Nov 5, 2009USA Today
It's easy – and tempting – to believe that cellphones and the Internet are making Americans more isolated as they filter out those around them and focus on lighted screens, distant Facebook friends and LOL conversations.
But a new surve...
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Nov 5, 2009Reuters News
Contrary to popular belief, the Internet and mobile phones are not isolating people but enhancing their social worlds, according to a U.S. survey.
The survey was sparked by a 2006 study by U.S. sociologists who argued technology is adva...
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Nov 5, 2009American Public Media | Future Tense
A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that the Internet and mobile phones do not lead to social isolation, as some previous re...
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Nov 5, 2009The Chronicle of Higher Education
Americans tend to have fewer close confidants today than they did two decades ago -- but that isn't because they're all huddled over their computers playing World of Warcraft or reading the Volokh Conspiracy.
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