July 2011
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Video: The Triple Revolution & The Turn to... →
In this video, Professor Barry Wellman discusses his upcoming book with Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie on networked individualism.
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#SocialCongress: Perceptions and Use of Social... →
This report represents the first research into congressional staffers’ attitudes about their offices’ use of social media. The findings are based on an online survey of congressional staff on their opinions and practices related to constituent communications, including social media. The findings are based on a survey of congressional staff which was conducted between October 12 and...
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New sites, apps offer loads of digital narratives... →
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Stowe Boyd: Trust Is Trust, Online And Off →
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Recent Pew research that shows that those that use the web more, trust people more:
The typical Internet user is more than twice as likely as others to feel that people can be trusted,” with regular Facebook users the most trusting of all. “A Facebook user who uses the site multiple times per day is 43% more likely than other Internet users and more than three times as likely as...
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What we're reading: Who are the e-reader readers? →
In a three-part series in the Boston Globe, Amanda Katz is looking at the past, present, and future of reading. Here, in the second part of the series, she asks: As e-book sales surge and those of paper peers struggle, how far will transition to digital go?
Related research: E-reader ownership doubles in six months (2011)
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Susannah Fox asks: Are patients knights, knaves,... →
Sachin Jain and John Rother’s JAMA commentary, “Are Patients Knights, Knaves, or Pawns?” is an article that begs to be shared. The first time I read it I had to stand up, I was so excited — how can I design a survey to capture these questions?! was my first thought. My second thought was how soon can I post this online and get the debate rolling?
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What we're reading: If you can quantify the self,... →
Fred Trotter on how the “Programmable Self” can be applied to healthier living
Q: So how would you explain the “Programmable Self” to my mother?
Fred Trotter: The basic idea is that I’m going to make a contract with myself to change, and software will manage that contract. There’s things that software can do, but it’s a very limited palette. You...
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"Information spreads like wildfire, right or... →
Over at the e-patients.net blog, Susannah Fox asks: If 16% of internet users say they have looked for information about immunizations or vaccinations online, what are they finding in those searches? How do they judge the quality of information they find? More broadly, does the benefit of greater access to information outweigh the costs?
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“More people are getting their political news from newspapers and television, but...”
– —Aaron Smith, senior research specialist, quoted in a Washington Post piece about President Obama’s upcoming “Twitter town hall.” The live question-and-answer session starts at 2pm EDT.
Read more about politics & social media:
Report: Twitter Update 2011
Report: 22% of...
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What we're reading: Teens + parents + cell phones →
A paper published today in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking examines how cell phones help and hurt teen/parent relationships. Read the full paper, “No Crossed Wires: Cell Phone Communications in Parent-Adolescent Relationships” (pdf), or a summary from the New York Times at the link above.
Further reading at pewinternet.org:
Report: Teens and Mobile Phones...
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Associated Press: Barnes & Noble to give $315 of... →
“Barnes & Noble Inc. said Thursday it will give $315 in e-books to customers who buy a Nook electronic reader in the bookseller’s stores — as long as they show them that they have another e-reader and want to make a switch.”
