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Technology & Media Use

Music and Video Downloading
3/23/2005 |Mary Madden,Lee Rainie
About 36 million Americans—or 27% of internet users—say they download either music or video files and about half of them have found ways outside of traditional peer-to-peer networks or paid online services to swap their files.
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Family, Friends & Community

Protecting Teens Online
3/17/2005 |Amanda Lenhart
54% of parents with teenagers use internet filters – a big jump from 2000. Yet both teens and parents believe that youth do things online that their parents would not like.

 

E-Gov & E-Policy

The Internet and Campaign 2004
3/6/2005 |Lee Rainie,John Horrigan,Michael Cornfield
75 million Americans used the internet in the last campaign to get political news and information, discuss candidates and debate issues in emails, or participate directly in the political process by volunteering or giving contributions to candidates. Acommentary on the internet and politics by Michael Cornfield accompanies this report.


Internet Evolution

How the internet has woven itself into American life
1/25/2005 |Lee Rainie,John Horrigan
Widespread adoption of the internet in the past decade has has some dramatic impacts on people's communication patterns and the way they seek information.

 

Online Activities & Pursuits

Search Engine Users
1/23/2005 |Deborah Fallows
Internet users are very happy with their experiences searching the internet, but many are naïve about how they search and the results they find.


Internet Evolution

The Future of the Internet
1/9/2005 |Susannah Fox,Janna Quitney Anderson,Lee Rainie
A wide-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and interested members of the public finds that most experts expect the internet to be more deeply integrated in our physical environments – with mixed results.


 Eric

Well, it's not a Pew survey, but the Census Bureau has released a report "Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2003" (from an ISL/LDO email) that may be of interest, too:

http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p23-208.pdf