Laws and regulations differ from state to state, as does insurance coverage and acceptance within and without the medical field, but millions of Americans are now getting some form of care by video.
A Pew report details a wide range of opinions on how our connected future will coalesce and how it will benefit (and harm us). But we have more options than many may think.
Retirees are turning to social media in a big way — adoption has tripled in the last four years among those 65 and older–and Facebook is their platform of choice, according to Pew Research.
Data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that caregivers in the U.S. are the most connected healthcare consumers, but the industry could still do a lot more to reach them.
While the number of nonprofit news sites is growing, many still lack a business model and sources of revenue beyond initial grants, a new Pew report finds. Most of the outlets surveyed raised less than $500,000 in 2011.
Are all those Facebook posts about political candidates amounting to much when it comes to civic engagement? A new report from the Pew Research Center breaks down civic participation and social media.
Smartphones and tablets are now everywhere, leading readers to consume more news, not less. The increase appears to be a good sign but for the fact that few people are paying for news on mobile.
New research from the Pew Center into news consumption habits shows that the impact of mobile and social continues to grow. Almost twice as many users got news from a mobile device compared with 2010, and almost three times as many got news from a social network.
One thing that becomes clear from the latest Pew report on the state of media is just how big a role aggregators — both human and machine-powered — are playing in news consumption. That is both a danger and an opportunity for mainstream media players.
A new report from the Pew Center shows that not only are users of social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter more socially and politically engaged both online and offline, but there are few signs of any “echo chamber” effects from online social activity.
Google is still a more important source of traffic for major news websites than social media, a new study shows — but Facebook is climbing in importance. The study also reinforces how much work news sites still have to do in building engagement with their readers.
A study from the Pew Research Center found that Internet users are much more likely to be socially active offline as well as online, and that those who use social media and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are even more likely to be so.
Despite its fast growth and media clout, Twitter remains a niche service in the U.S., used by just 8 percent of American Internet users, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. Twitter is most popular among Hispanic, Black and younger urban users.
If you use a location-based service like Foursquare, you are a member of a tiny minority, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, which found that less than 5 percent of online adults use such services. Can Facebook make location go mainstream?
Managing what is said about them online has become “a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young,” according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Younger users also tend to be less trusting of content-hosting sites.
News consumption has become a fundamentally social experience, and consumers are no longer loyal to a specific site or a specific new outlet, according to a joint research report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
A study out on Sunday from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found 44 percent of respondents experienced some kind of web connection failure, 39 percent experienced a computer failure and 29 percent experienced a cell phone issue within the last 12 months.