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Media Mention
Katie Hafner, The New York Times
Oct 23, 2003
According to a report to be released today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, 70 percent of e-mail users say that spam had made being online annoying or unpleasant.
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More in: Email
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Media Mention
Dave Gussow, St. Petersburg Times
Oct 23, 2003
"It's a real interesting kind of counterplay," said Deborah Fallows, a senior research fellow at Pew and author of the report. "When it gets right down to it, people are disgusted, offended, etc., by the spam, but they have perspective on it."
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More in: Email, Work
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Report
Oct 22, 2003Deborah Fallows
Internet users are frustrated and unhappy about spam, as they see it making email less reliable, effective, and fun.
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Presentation
Oct 6, 2003Lee Rainie
This presentation is an overview of three years of survey findings and other research about the adoption and impact of the Internet.
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More in: Broadband, Technology User Types, Digital Divide, Search, Email
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Report
Jul 16, 2003Susannah Fox, Deborah Fallows
Half of American adults have searched online for 16 health topics ranging from disease information to smoking cessation strategies. Health seekers go online to become informed, to prepare for appointments and surgery, to share information, and to see...
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More in: Health, Decision Making, Email
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Data Set
Jun 24, 2003
This dataset contains tracking questions about online activities. It also contains an extensive battery of questions pertaining to the volume of “spam” email, Internet users’ attitudes towards spam and the use of email filtering.
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More in: Email
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Report
Apr 1, 2003Susannah Fox, Lee Rainie, Deborah Fallows
In the early days of the war with Iraq, 77% of online Americans used the Internet in some connection with the war. They went online to get information about the war, to learn and share differing opinions about the conflict, to send and receive emails...
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Media Mention
St. Petersburg Times
Jan 13, 2003
More than 30-million Americans, or 28 percent of Internet users, bought gifts online this holiday season, compared with 29-million in 2001 and 20-million in 2000.
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More in: Shopping, Religion, Email
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Media Mention
Deseret News staff and wire reports , Deseret News
Jan 8, 2003
More than three-fourths of the country's Internet users clacked away at keyboards to send e-mails or access the Web for holiday activities in 2002, according to a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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Report
Jan 7, 2003John Horrigan, Lee Rainie
More than three-quarters of Internet users went online this season for some kind of holiday activity. For many email was vital for planning gatherings or sending greetings. Online holiday shopping was up slightly from the previous year.
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More in: Shopping, Email, Religion