New Media Ecology

John B. Horrigan discusses how users shape the mobile ecosystem by comparing adoption of the mobile net to adoption of the desktop internet of the 1990s and by focusing on the "motivated by mobility" groups from the Project's The Mobile Difference...

Lee Rainie discussed the Project’s research about how the internet and cell phones are affecting citizens and how government agencies have new opportunities to plug into citizens’ social networks as they try to solve problems in their lives.

A majority of American adults went online in 2008 to keep informed about political developments and to get involved with the election.

This speech pulls together Pew Internet findings and analysis about how people get news and relate to news items in the digital age.

Lee Rainie's speech at the Integrated Media Association meeting was a hit on Twitter.

How can museums and libraries adjust to the new media ecosystem?

The world that libraries and other organizations face can be seen as a new information ecosystem to which they can adapt.

This speech pulls together Pew Internet Project data about how people's use of the internet and cell phones has fundamentally changed the "information ecosystem" in 10 ways.

Voters expect that the level of public engagement they experienced with Barack Obama during the campaign, much of it occurring online, will continue into the early period of his new administration.

A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more soci...