Race and Ethnicity

Broadband adoption slowed dramatically in 2010, but growth among African-Americans jumped well above the national average; 53% of Americans do not think affordable broadband should be a government priority.

Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Our jumping-off point was the Pew Internet Project's latest research on internet penetration, mobile use, and the socia...

Internet penetration, mobile use, the social life of health information -- and how it fits in with the National Library of Medicine's strategy.

How do we explain the disparity between African-Americans' and Hispanics' views of the importance of government social media versus whites?

Kristen Purcell will speak at the the Fred Rogers Center's Fred Forward Conference about recent research on teens' online activities.

64% of Latino adults ages 18 and older used the internet in 2008, compared with 54% of Latinos in 2006.

Representatives from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the U.S. Internet Industry Association (USIIA) will discuss the new communities coming online in record numbers in the United St...

Three "thermometers" of access show the disparities among various groups when it comes to internet access, cell phone use, and broadband access at home.

Our sample sizes for health surveys have been too small to do in-depth analysis on race/ethnicity and economic status. One challenge is that a significant portion of the respondent pool refuses to answer the household income question (the refusal...

Hispanics with lower levels of education and English proficiency remain largely disconnected from the internet.