Pew Internet & American Life Project News

Health Issues Drive Online Connections

Nearly 20 percent (18%) of U.S. Internet users have gone online to find others with similar health issues, according to a new report from the Pew I...

Republicans And Democrats

Nearly a quarter of Americans used Twitter or social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace in the months leading up to the November, 2010 el...

Facebook And Twitter Users Are More Active In Groups

The majority (80%) of American Internet users participate in groups, compared with 56 percent of non-Internet users, according to a new report from...

Wikipedia Marks Tenth Anniversary

To mark the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia that takes place Saturday, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has released data about who uses ...

Location-Based Services See Light Use

Four percent of online adults use a service such as Foursquare or Gowalla that allows them to share their location with friends and to find others ...

More Than Half Of Americans Do Online Research Before Making A Purchase

More than half (58%) of Americans conduct online research about the products and services they are considering purchasing, according to a new repor...

Mobile Apps Often Go Unused

More than a third (35%) of U.S. adults have applications or “apps” on their phones, yet only 24 percent of adults use those apps, accor...

Americans Have A Love-Hate Relationship With Their Cell Phones

Texting by American adults has increased significantly over the past year, but still does not approach the level of text messages exchanged by youn...

Older Adults Embracing Twitter And Social Media

Social networking use among Internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled from 22 percent in April 2009 to 42 percent in May 2010, according to a...

Broadband Adoption In The U.S. Slows

The adoption of broadband Internet access slowed significantly over the last year, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Lif...

Millennials Won

Millennials are expected to make online sharing a lifelong habit, according to new research from Pew Internet and Elon University. ...

Wireless Internet Access Becoming More Widespread

Cell phone and wireless laptop Internet use have each grown more widespread over the last year, according to a new report from the Pew Internet &am...

Will Social Media Improve Life In the Future?

The social benefits of Internet use will outweigh the negatives over the next decade, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Cente...

Adults And Teens Equally Likely To Text While Driving

American adults are just as likely to have texted while driving as teenagers and are significantly more likely than teens to have talked on their c...

More Americans Going Online To Connect Locally

More Americans are using online tools as a way to connect to their neighbors and local communities, according to a new report by the Pew Internet &...

More Americans Watching And Sharing Online Video

More than two-thirds (69%) of adult Internet users have used the Internet to watch or download video, representing 52 percent of all adults in the ...

More Americans Going Online For Government Information

More Americans are turning to government agencies websites for information, according to new research from Pew Internet & American Life Project...

Teen Texting Sees Sharp Increase

Cell-phone texting has become the preferred form of basic communication between teens and their friends, according to a new report from the Pew Int...

Internet Access Vital For Those With Chronic Disease

Only 62 percent of adults living with chronic disease go online, compared with 81 percent of adults with no chronic diseases, according to a new re...

Americans Favor Online News Over Newspapers

The Internet is now the third most-popular news platform, behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, local p...

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