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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.
When it comes to the internet, most Americans use it every day and view it as a beneficial source of communications in…
Pew released updated data Friday finding that 24 percent of American adults owns an e-reader, up from 19 percent in a November…
According to Pew Research, a record 85 percent of American adults use the internet in 2013. However, 15 percent of adults still…
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.
Pew finds that e-reader and tablet owners read more books — print and digital — than people who don’t own those devices.
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.
We’ve heard that social media is a great source of traffic for news outlets so often that it’s close to textbook. Yes, Facebook, Twitter an…
Before we get into the results of the latest detailed look at how U.S. newspapers are faring on the digital revenue front, let’s get one ser…
Tablet owners read a lot of news, in part because the early-adopter crowd that has embraced tablets are the type of people who like to be in…
Pew, in its latest, ongoing research into news consumption and news creation, took a pit stop in the world of mobile today, and found that w…
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.
You are about to see a host of references to a new batch of numbers from the Pew Internet & American Life project pop up all over the place.…
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?
Young adults are the heaviest social media users but older adults are fueling the growth. Wired adults 50 and older nearly doubled use of so…
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.
The latest report on online news economics from Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism is one of those studies that will bolster just ab…
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.
With 62 percent of adult American Internet users surveyed by Pew in April reporting they watch online video on sites like YouTube…
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.
The audience for YouTube and other video sharing websites has risen sharply in the past year, with almost half of online adults logging onto…
