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May 26, 2010Mary Madden, Aaron Smith
How people monitor and maintain their identity through search and social media.
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Sharing information about yourself is the bedrock of social networking sites and other online communities. Pew Internet focuses on how people search for others online and manage their online identities.
Suzanne Ma, Associated Press
Sep 17, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Matching mullets, regrettable tattoos, metal mouths and goofy grins. Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the pages of an old family album or studying the photo frames on the fir...
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Kevin Whitelaw, NPR
Sep 2, 2009
Some of the change is cultural. Users have been flocking to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, where they voluntarily share all kinds of details about their lives. In some ways, the meteoric success of these sites could be a reacti...
Sep 1, 2009
This data set contains questions about how people monitor and maintain their online identities. It was used in the reports "Reputation Management and Social Media" and "Twitter and Status Updating Fall 2009".
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Jul 18, 2008Susannah Fox
A recent JAMA article warns doctors to follow their own digital footprints since patients may be doing so already. But is searching for information about a doctor so different from searching for information about a neighbor, classmate, or colleague?
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Jul 11, 2008Sydney Jones
The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on Wednesday about the privacy implications of online advertising.
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Jun 30, 2008Amanda Lenhart
This presentation covers basic internet connectivity statistics before launching into a discussion of the major online safety issues. Broken down into issues of online contact vs online content, the talk shares data on online stranger contact, sexual...
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Jun 13, 2008Deborah Fallows
People say the Chinese internet is mostly an entertainment network. But looking at what happened online during the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake reveals a Chinese internet with a depth and soul and much, much more.
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May 9, 2008Mary Madden
As more of us integrate social networking into our daily lives online, the layered privacy choices we make through our in-network interactions are becoming increasingly complex.
Apr 25, 2008Amanda Lenhart
At the request of the Internet Safety Task Force, Amanda Lenhart presented the Pew Internet Project's most recent data on online stranger contact, cyberbullying, the steps that teens take to ensure (or not) their online privacy and the ways in which ...
Apr 11, 2008Mary Madden
A recent New York Times article suggests another reason why people are motivated to search for content connected to their names online: to check up on how their "Google twins" are doing from time to time.
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.