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Media Mention
Haya El Nasser, USA Today
Oct 23, 2009
The Census Bureau is well-known for asking questions. Now it will answer them, too.
The agency's new 2010census.gov website went up this week and, when it is officially launched Monday will give people a chance to do the questioning.
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Presentation
Sep 18, 2009Susannah Fox
Susannah Fox will present data about the impact of the internet on health and health care to a meeting of the HIT Policy Committee, convened by David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
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Andre Blackman, Pulse + Signal
Sep 14, 2009
Andre Blackman of Pulse + Signal interviews Associate Director Susannah Fox about her research. [video]
Interview with Susannah Fox, Pew Internet Project from Andre Blackman on Vimeo.
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Presentation
Sep 8, 2009Susannah Fox
Susannah Fox will be a special guest at Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase, a one-day event highlighting practical, cutting-edge efforts to build what Tim O'Reilly has called "government as a platform."
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Steven Davy, PBS MediaShift
Sep 3, 2009
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that for the first time a majority (55 percent) of voting-age adults engaged with politics online during the 2008 presidential election.
"In each consecutive, comparable election season sinc...
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BBC News
Sep 2, 2009
US civic engagement remains in the hands of the middle-class despite hopes that the internet would democratise political involvement.
Those are the findings of a report from the Pew Internet Project.
Online political engagement such as contacti...
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Associated Press
Sep 1, 2009
The Pew Internet and American Life Project says in a report Tuesday that people who participate in civic life online tend to be richer and better educated. That's not much different from the makeup in offline politics. Pew counts activities such as c...
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Kim Hart, The Hill
Sep 1, 2009
The Internet has prompted young adults to become much more politically active, but the technology has not succeeded in getting other historically inactive groups involved in civic activism, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Internet a...
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Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica
Sep 1, 2009
Partisans on these issues may experience the Pew Internet and American Life Projects' latest study as a bit of a downer. It says that cyberspace hasn't really affected activism all that much in at least one fundamental sense. "Just as in offline civi...
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Nicole Allan, The Atlantic
Sep 1, 2009
In 2004, Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s techie campaign manager, declared that “the Internet is the most democratizing innovation we’ve ever seen—more so even than the printing press.” Five years later, after ...
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