report | Feb 14, 2008

Privacy Implications of Fast, Mobile Internet Access

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 infor...

report | Jan 9, 2008

Increased Use of Video-sharing Sites

48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year.

report | Dec 19, 2007

Teens and Social Media

More teens are creating and sharing material on the internet. 28% of online teens have blogs, up from 2004 with growth fueled almost entirely by girls. "Super communicators" rise as email fades as a tool for teens.

report | Nov 14, 2007

A Different Kind of Random Sampling

As fascinating as it can be to discover surprising patterns and stories living beneath a heaping pile of numbers, sometimes you can't fully capture that narrative in numbers or words.

presentation | Oct 29, 2007

2.0 and the Internet World

This is a rundown of the Pew Internet & American Life Project's most recent findings related to internet use, especially Web 2.0 activities. It also goes through the Project's new tech-user typology and the implications of the Project's findings f...

presentation | Oct 19, 2007

Teens, Social Networking and Web 2.0

Pew Internet Project research on teenagers' use of social networking applications explores the reasons why these sites are so popular and how they are changing communication patterns and expectations of connectivity among young library patrons.

report | Jul 31, 2007

Neighborhood Scouts

Aerial mapping, database mash-ups, and other online scouts.

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