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May 15, 2013
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Slideshow: Tech trends, library stats, and how teens do research

Research Analyst Kathryn Zickuhr gave a presentation at the Westchester Library Association’s annual conference that touched on a lot of our recent findings on library use, as well as a broad overview of technology adoption among adults and teens and a quick look at how teens do research in the digital age. Take a look at her comprehensive slideshow.

Tags: Technology Mobile Social media Teens Libraries Research

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March 04, 2013
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Teaching 2.0: Is Tech In The Classroom Worth The Cost?

A conversation featuring our Kristen Purcell, Pew Internet Associate Director for Research. For more context, visit our recent report: How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms

FULL STORY

Tags: education technology

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January 07, 2013
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Some things to ponder as you head into CES …

Via http://pewrsr.ch/ZDqqKD & http://pewrsr.ch/Zxwgwa

(Source: pewinternet.org)

Tags: e-readers tablets cell phones smartphones device ownership technology CES

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July 25, 2012
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Internet Use and Home Broadband Connections: Demographic breakdown According to our April 2012 survey, 82% of American adults use the internet and 66% have a high-speed broadband connection at home. Here’s a closer look at internet use versus broadband use by various demographic groups.

Internet Use and Home Broadband Connections: Demographic breakdown

According to our April 2012 survey, 82% of American adults use the internet and 66% have a high-speed broadband connection at home. Here’s a closer look at internet use versus broadband use by various demographic groups.

Tags: broadband tech technology infographics

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July 13, 2012
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"When my child was diagnosed, I left everything and turned to research this disease. I promised myself that my life would be driven by efforts to make my child’s life normal and to give my child tools for handling these handicaps in a positive way. So far, so good. He has the tools, he lives life to the fullest. He is married and totally independent of me. Though he lives hundreds of miles away, he knows I am standing behind him, and when he needs help, I am there in a nano-second."

— As part of the research for our report on family caregivers online, we asked members of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) to write short essays about their use of the internet in caring for themselves or for their loved ones. This mother described how she stepped up to the challenge.

(Source: pewinternet.org)

Tags: health technology caregivers

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July 12, 2012
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"[Caregivers] are creating the tools that they need, just as hackers create the tools that they need."

— Susannah Fox, in GigaOM’s article on our new report

(Source: gigaom.com)

Tags: health caregivers internet technology

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July 12, 2012
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30% of U.S. adults provide support to a loved one. The internet is a key information and communications resource for this front-line labor force. Fully 79% of caregivers have access to the internet. Of those, 88% look online for health information. They outpace other internet users when it comes to researching every health topic included in Pew Internet’s surveys, often by double-digit margins. This and more in our new report out today on family caregivers and their use of the internet. Have you ever used the internet to provide support for a loved one?

30% of U.S. adults provide support to a loved one. The internet is a key information and communications resource for this front-line labor force.

Fully 79% of caregivers have access to the internet. Of those, 88% look online for health information. They outpace other internet users when it comes to researching every health topic included in Pew Internet’s surveys, often by double-digit margins.

This and more in our new report out today on family caregivers and their use of the internet. Have you ever used the internet to provide support for a loved one?

Tags: health caregivers technology

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June 12, 2012
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Peer-to-peer Healthcare: Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious.

Patients and caregivers know things — about themselves, about each other, about treatments — and they want to share what they know to help other people. Technology helps to surface and organize that knowledge to make it useful for as many people as possible.

This 5-minute excerpt of Susannah Fox’s Medicine 2.0’11 keynote gives an overview of the concept of peer-to-peer health care.

(Source: pewinternet.org)

Tags: health technology healthcare social networking

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May 16, 2012
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Facebook: A Profile of its ‘Friends’ In light of the Facebook IPO, we rounded up highlights of our data on adult Facebook users. What do Facebook users do on the site? How many friends they have? What are their social and civic lives like? Some fast facts: 229: The average number of friends a person has on Facebook Women average 21 updates to their Facebook status per month while men average 6 Facebook, on an Average Day: 15% of Facebook users update their own status 22% comment on another’s post or status 20% comment on another user’s photos 26% “Like” another user’s content  10% send another user a private message Read the full portrait for more on the social and civic characteristics of Facebook users and the privacy management habits of social networking site users 

Facebook: A Profile of its ‘Friends’

In light of the Facebook IPO, we rounded up highlights of our data on adult Facebook users. What do Facebook users do on the site? How many friends they have? What are their social and civic lives like?

Some fast facts:

  • 229: The average number of friends a person has on Facebook
  • Women average 21 updates to their Facebook status per month while men average 6

Facebook, on an Average Day:

  • 15% of Facebook users update their own status
  • 22% comment on another’s post or status
  • 20% comment on another user’s photos
  • 26% “Like” another user’s content 
  • 10% send another user a private message
Read the full portrait for more on the social and civic characteristics of Facebook users and the privacy management habits of social networking site users 

Tags: Facebook facebook ipo social networking sites tech technology

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May 10, 2012
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Mobile: Fast facts

88% of American adults have a cell phone, 57% have a laptop, 19% own an e-book reader, and 19% have a tablet computer; about six in ten adults (63%) go online wirelessly with one of those devices.

Among cell phone owners, 53% own a smartphone as of February 2012. This means that 46% of all American adults own a smartphone.

Some 70% of all cell phone owners and 86% of smartphone owners have used their phones in the previous 30 days to perform at least one of the following activities:

  • Coordinate a meeting or get-together — 41% of cell phone owners have done this in the past 30 days.
  • Solve an unexpected problem that they or someone else had encountered — 35% have used their phones to do this in the past 30 days.
  • Decide whether to visit a business, such as a restaurant — 30% have used their phone to do this in the past 30 days.
  • Find information to help settle an argument they were having — 27% have used their phone to get information for that reason in the past 30 days.
  • Look up a score of a sporting event — 23% have used their phone to do that in the past 30 days.
  • Get up-to-the-minute traffic or public transit information to find the fastest way to get somewhere — 20% have used their phone to get that kind of information in the past 30 days.
  • Get help in an emergency situation — 19% have used their phone to do that in the past 30 days.

Hungry for more mobile info? Check out this research roundup.

Hungry for social networking info? Check out this research roundup too!

Tags: mobile tech technology

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March 13, 2012
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"It occurred to me that if Uncle Burt went online, for the first time in his life he could have relationships that were not limited by his disabilities. I was able to put him in touch with some of my friends and he communicated with some people who shared his affection for the soap opera, “Days of Our Lives.” And then, when the web first started, I tried out new search engines with arcane terms like “Moebius Syndrome” and one day, I got a hit. … And Uncle Burt heard for the first time that there were other people like him. For the last year of his life, he was the elder statesman of a very small but very excited community and it would not have been possible without the web."

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The internet’s impact on one man’s life — another great commentary by our Susannah Fox, as recounted to her by Nell Minow.

Read the full story …

Tags: health technology internet

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March 08, 2012
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Who owns tablet computers as of Jan. 2012?

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March 06, 2012
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Chart of the week: Smartphone ownership within demographic groups, 2011-2012 46% of American adults are smartphone owners as of February 2012, an increase of 11 percentage points over the 35% of Americans who owned a smartphone last May.  Nearly every major demographic group—men and women, younger and middle-aged adults, urban and rural residents, the wealthy and the less well-off—experienced a notable uptick in smartphone penetration over the last year. Check the chart to see the change within each demographic group … Read more … 

Chart of the week: Smartphone ownership within demographic groups, 2011-2012

46% of American adults are smartphone owners as of February 2012, an increase of 11 percentage points over the 35% of Americans who owned a smartphone last May. 

Nearly every major demographic group—men and women, younger and middle-aged adults, urban and rural residents, the wealthy and the less well-off—experienced a notable uptick in smartphone penetration over the last year. Check the chart to see the change within each demographic group …

Read more … 

Tags: mobile smartphones tech technology demographics

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March 02, 2012
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Is the Internet ruining or improving today's youth?

Tags: Millennials future of the internet tech technology hyperconnected

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March 01, 2012
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46% of American adults now own a smartphone of some kind, up from 35% in May 2011; Smartphone owners now outnumber users of more basic phones. There has also been a corresponding shift in the specific types of phones that Americans report owning: 20% of cell owners now describe their phone as an Android device, up from 15% in May 2011 19% of cell owners now describe their phone as an iPhone, up from 10% in May 2011 6% of cell owners now describe the phone as a Blackberry, down from 10% in May 2011 Read more …

46% of American adults now own a smartphone of some kind, up from 35% in May 2011; Smartphone owners now outnumber users of more basic phones.

There has also been a corresponding shift in the specific types of phones that Americans report owning:

  • 20% of cell owners now describe their phone as an Android device, up from 15% in May 2011
  • 19% of cell owners now describe their phone as an iPhone, up from 10% in May 2011
  • 6% of cell owners now describe the phone as a Blackberry, down from 10% in May 2011

Read more …

Tags: mobile smartphones cell phones tech technology