August 2011
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What we're reading: The Demographics of Online... →
Our new report covers online learning in higher ed, but there’s another report out today with data about K-12 online learners: Click here to download the PDF.
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The Digital Revolution and Higher Education
We’ve got a great new Pew Research Center report out today about college presidents and how they view the tech in the classroom—both today and in the coming years. This report cover everything from the perceptions of the public and college presidents about the value of online learning, the prevalence and future of online courses, use of digital textbooks, the internet and plagiarism, and...
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Pew FAQ: How does the Pew Internet Project decide...
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There is so much always changing about the Internet and how people use it, plus the rise of social media and all the new devices people use. How does the Pew Internet Project decide what topics and trends are important to study?
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The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has a broad mandate from the Pew Charitable Trusts to study the social impact of...
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Spread of Earthquake-Related Tweets →
miguelrios:
Below is a visual of the Tweets from VA and Washington, DC one minute after the August 23 #earthquake.
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We're hiring!
The Pew Internet & American Life Project (that’s us!) is looking for a new Web Coordinator. Here’s the basic position description:
The Web Coordinator is the staffer most immediately involved in the day-to-day operations of the Pew Internet Project’s web site and digital dissemination strategies. The Web Coordinator helps conceive and produce special web-only reports and...
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Pew Internet around the web →
As a research organization that studies how people use technology, we do our best to stay on top of the many (and ever-changing) popular online services that can help share our research with various online communities (*ahem, Tumblr*).
We’re sure this list will evolve over time, but at the moment here’s your handy guide to the best ways to get in touch or keep up with our work on the web.
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What we're reading: 14 Million Americans Scanned... →
emergentfutures:
comScore has released results of a study on mobile QR and bar code scanning based on data from its comScore MobiLens service. A QR (“Quick Response”) code is a specific matrix bar code (or two-dimensional code) that is readable by smartphones. The study found that in June 2011, 14 million mobile users in the U.S., representing 6.2 percent of the total mobile audience, scanned a...
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Name This Activity: Pretending to Use a Cell Phone... →
Our latest report includes the finding that, in the month prior to taking our survey, 13% of cell phone owners had pretended to be using their phone in order to avoid interacting with the people around them. And The Atlantic is asking you to help give this practice a name:
If you’re of a certain age and position relative to a metro area, you have almost undoubtedly engaged in this...
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Failed Tech Predictions
poptech:
(via Visua.ly)
Related reading: If you love to read technology predictions (or love to point out why they’re all wrong), be sure to check out our Future of the Internet reports. Want more? Head on over to Elon’s Imagining the Internet vaults and then share your own prediction!
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