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Presentation
Sep 13, 2010Susannah Fox
Susannah Fox will discuss the social life of health information and its potential for transforming health care.
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More in: Health, Mobile
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Presentation
Jul 29, 2010Kristen Purcell
In this international course, Kristen will share data on the growing mobile landscape both globally and in the US, highlight key aspects of today’s changing information ecology, and explore with librarians how they can leverage these two trends in th...
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More in: Libraries, Mobile, New Media Ecology
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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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Report
Jul 7, 2010Aaron Smith
Six in ten Americans go online wirelessly using a laptop or cell phone; African-Americans and 18-29 year olds lead the way in the use of cell phone data applications, but older adults are gaining ground.
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Media Mention
Suzanne Choney, msnbc.com
Jul 7, 2010
Americans' use of non-voice programs on cell phones has "grown dramatically" over the last year, with even more of us using our phones as cameras and video recorders, as well as for e-mail, Internet and playing games, according to a report from the P...
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More in: Mobile, Gaming
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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
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Media Mention
Cecilia Kang, Washington Post
Jul 7, 2010
African Americans and Hispanics continue to be among the most avid users of the Internet over their cellphones, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.
And low-income groups are among the fastest adopters of th...
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More in: Mobile