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Social networking sites and politics, by Lee Rainie, Aaron Smith, Mar 12, 2012 “Chatter in peoples social networks about political issues prompts a share of disagreements among friends and the sites yield surprising revelations about peoples views; 18% of users have shunned friends who have different ideas and 16% have found friends whose beliefs match …
“Based in Amsterdam and Paris, the Internet Memory Foundation (formerly European Archive) is a non-profit institution. Since 2004, it actively supports the preservation of Internet as a new media. The foundation is currently archiving dozens of Terabytes of data per months and is developing several technologies to support the growth and use of the Internet …
Alexanyan, Karina, Barash, Vladimir, Etling, Bruce, Faris, Robert, Gasser, Urs, Kelly, John, Palfrey, John G. and Roberts, Hal, Exploring Russian Cyberspace: Digitally-Mediated Collective Action and the Networked Public Sphere (March 2, 2012). Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2012-2. “This paper summarizes the major findings of a three-year research project to investigate the Internets impact on …
Smartphone users now outnumber users of more basic mobile phones within the national adult population, Aaron Smith Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet Project “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. Nearly half (46%) of American adults …
“Pew Director Lee Rainie gave a keynote at the NFAIS annual conference about the way the internet and mobile connectivity have transformed the worlds of networked individuals. He discussed how normal life has changed in the past decade because of three revolutions in technology: 1) the spread of broadband; 2) the rise of mobile connectivity; …
Pew – Global Digital Communication: Texting, Social Networking Popular Worldwide “Cell phones are owned by overwhelmingly large majorities of people in most major countries around the world, and they are used for much more than just phone calls. In particular, text messaging is a global phenomenon across the 21 countries surveyed, a median of …
NASA Cybersecurity: An Examination of the Agencys Information Security – Testimony before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, February 29, 2012 – Statement of Paul K. Martin, NASA Inspector General: “My testimony today highlights five issues that we believe, based on our extensive audit and investigative work, constitute …
Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives – by Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie, February 29, 2012 “Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems …
News release: “Today at the RSA Conference 2012, Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, shared his vision for the road ahead as society and computing intersect in an increasingly interconnected world. In a new paper, Trustworthy Computing (TwC) Next, Charney encouraged industry and governments to develop more effective privacy principles focused on …
Our Mobile Planet: Global Smartphone Users, Google, February 2012 “Smartphone ownership has jumped globally – increasing 11% to 44% of the total population in Spain and by 7% to 38% of the total population in the US. Smartphone owners are always using their device – in France, 90% use their mobile devices to access the …
Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality – New Report and Infographic, the Berkman Center, by Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Momin Malik, & Ashley Lee. “Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age …
DuckDuckGo: An introduction to the anonymous search engine In an effort to educate Internet users about privacy, DuckDuckGos founder, Gabriel Weinberg, has been known to create educational and informative sites, including DontTrack.us, which informs users about the potential dangers of searching with Google.
