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Pew Internet and American Life Project: All

The Pew Internet and American Life Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internet's growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial.

Report: Obama's Online OpportunitiesDecember 3

There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have one more suggestion: Make sure the internet remains a place where users define what it means to be digitally connected.

Commentary: Facebook Connect and a failure to understand online identity managementDecember 1

Facebook has recently announced the rollout of a new feature called Facebook Connect, which will allow users to login to other websites using their Facebook identity and which will then potentially feed back to a user's network information about their actions on the site. Touted as an identity management system, once again a social network tool adds new burdens to a user's online identity management as much as it adds value.

Commentary: Many Older Adults Remain Offline in an Online WorldNovember 29

A New York Times article, That Digital Divide, Bridged in a Classroom, features our August 2008 data on computer usage, which tracks with our findings on internet penetration: 38% of Americans age 65+ go online or use computers, compared with 74% of 50-64 year-olds, 86% of 30-49 year-olds, and 91% of 18-29 year-olds (and about 95% of teenagers).

Commentary: Illness in the age of "e"November 25

Last month, the Connected Health Symposium at Harvard Medical School saw a first: a full-length case study in participatory medicine, described concurrently by both the patient and his physician.

Commentary: User attitudes vary about broken - and healthy - technologiesNovember 20

While in a recent report we discussed the malaise of some users when their technology fails, we have found in previous reports that negative feelings are not isolated to broken gadgets - some users are reluctant to engage even with healthy technology.