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Presentation
Sep 16, 2010Aaron Smith
Aaron Smith will speak at CAPAF’s Internet Advocacy Roundtable to discuss how to best use social media to engage and mobilize diverse constituencies.
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More in: Communities, Government, Politics, Digital Divide, Race and Ethnicity
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Commentary
Sep 1, 2010Susannah Fox
Technology use among foreign-born Latinos continues to lag significantly behind that of their U.S.-born counterparts.
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More in: Digital Divide, Race and Ethnicity , Mobile
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Media Mention
Cecilia Kang, Washington Post
Aug 12, 2010
More than half of Americans generally disagree with federal government efforts to expand broadband connections around the nation, saying those projects are not important, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Pew Center.
The findings com...
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More in: Broadband, Digital Divide
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Media Mention
Peter Svensson, Associated Press
Aug 11, 2010
The adoption of high-speed Internet service in homes has slowed to a crawl this year after a decade of rapid growth, according to two new studies. And it looks as if broadband is going to be a tough sell for those who don't already have it.
The Pe...
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More in: Broadband, Digital Divide
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Report
Aug 11, 2010Aaron Smith
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.
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More in: Broadband, Race and Ethnicity , Digital Divide
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Media Mention
Latoya Peterson, NPR
Jul 21, 2010
Since Barack Obama began stumping for the White House, he has made closing the digital divide a priority by my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5nQB">promising to provide broadband access for every American. And the president has been quietly putting plans in place to funnel ...
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More in: Mobile, Race and Ethnicity , Digital Divide
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Media Mention
Steve Evans, BBC's Americana
Jul 18, 2010
Presenter Stephen Evans crunches the numbers with Susannah Fox of The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and technology guru Megan McCarthy. They discuss what it is that Americans explore, accomplish and build when they spend hour...
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More in: Digital Divide, Seniors, Teens, Broadband, Mobile
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Commentary
Jul 13, 2010Susannah Fox
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 social l...
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More in: Health, Social Networking, Generations, Race and Ethnicity , Digital Divide, Mobile
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Presentation
Jul 8, 2010Susannah Fox
Internet penetration, mobile use, the social life of health information -- and how it fits in with the National Library of Medicine's strategy.
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More in: Health, Social Networking, Digital Divide, Race and Ethnicity , Generations, Mobile
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Media Mention
Gautham Nagesh, The Hill
Jul 7, 2010
Eighty-seven percent of minority respondents own a cell phone as opposed to 80 percent of whites. In total, 64 percent of African-Americans use some form of mobile Internet via their cell phone or laptop, while only 59 percent of all adults do so. Sm...
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More in: Mobile, Digital Divide