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2004

  • Media Mention

    Most Americans using Internet often prefer offline methods

    Aug 12, 2004

    The Internet's everyday appeal among adult Americans is broad but shallow, concludes the study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which found that two-thirds of Internet-using Americans favor more conventional ways of communicating, getting...

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    More in: News, Music

  • Infographic

    The tasks of everyday life and the internet

    While nearly all Internet users conducted some of their day-to-day activities online in 2004, most still defaulted to the traditional offline ways of communicating, transacting affairs, getting information and entertaining themselves.

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    More in: Gaming, Shopping, Families, Music, News

  • Report

    The Internet and Daily Life

    The vast majority of online Americans say the Internet plays a role in their daily routines and that the rhythm of their everyday lives would be affected if they could no longer go online. Yet, despite its great popularity and allure, the Internet st...

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    More in: Families, Gaming, Music, News

  • Media Mention

    Life's not the same without the Net: Americans love to log on, but not for everything

    Aug 11, 2004

    Our lives just wouldn't be the same without the Internet, yet we're somehow living most of our lives offline. So says the latest study from the nonprofit Pew Internet & American Life Project, which tracks our online habits. Of those Americans who use...

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    More in: News, Music

  • Media Mention

    Study probes roles Internet is playing in U.S. users' lives

    Aug 4, 2004

    Nearly 90 percent of Americans who go online said the Internet plays a role in their daily routines and 64 percent said their daily activities would be affected if they could no longer use the Internet.

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    More in: News, Music

  • Commentary

    DMCA Reform Being Considered

    As usual, the recording industry, the technology sector, consumer advocates and policy makers are having difficulty finding common ground on this issue, to say the least. But how do the musicians...

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    More in: Music

  • Media Mention

    How do musicians feel about Internet file-sharing?

    May 12, 2004

    With all of the hullabaloo about music file sharing on the Internet, perhaps it's time to ask the musicians themselves about how they feel. The Pew Internet & American Life Project has done just that, surveying 2,755 musicians and songwriters between...

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  • Report

    Preliminary results of survey of musicians

    Between March 15 and April 15 of this year, 2,755 musicians and songwriters responded to a Web-based survey about the way they use the Internet and their views on a host of public policy questions related to copyright and music file-sharing on the In...

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  • Media Mention

    Pirates singing new tune as downloads see a drop

    Apr 26, 2004

    The music industry's lawsuits against downloaders helped persuade Rob Thompson and Mike Gatti to shun the free file-sharing services on the Internet. Thompson and Gatti, who work together at a Boston ad agency, prefer to buy music at record shops suc...

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  • Media Mention

    Lawsuit Threat Cuts Music Downloads; Internet Users Wary, Study Finds

    Apr 26, 2004

    Driven largely by fears of copyright lawsuits, more than 17 million Americans, or 14 percent of adult Internet users, have stopped downloading music over the Internet... Despite the decline, the overall percentage of people who say they download musi...

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DATA POINT

73%

of AP and NWP teachers say that they and/or their students use their cell phones in the classroom or to complete assignments

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