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About a third of online teens say they have been targets of online harassement. Older girls and intense internet users are the most likely to report these experiences.
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About a third of online teens say they have been targets of online harassement. Older girls and intense internet users are the most likely to report these experiences.
Pew Internet’s typology of information and communications technology users tells us a lot about how far along we are — or aren’t — in the "information society."
The number of cell-phone-only households has continued to grow — 12.8% of all households by the end of 2006, according to the National Health Interview Survey. While the noncoverage problem is currently not damaging estimates for the entire population, a study finds evidence that it does create biased estimates on certain variables for young adults, 25% of whom are cell-only.
The landline-less are different from regular telephone users in many of their opinions and their numbers are growing fast. Can survey researchers meet this challenge?
In China, there is a virtual meeting place for people who have social connections to buy or sell.
12% of internet users participate in an online patient group.
That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and to discuss the races through email. And the number of Americans using the internet as their main source of political material doubled since the last mid-term election, rivaling the number from the 2004 presidential election year.
37% of email users said spam had increased in their personal email accounts, up from 28% of email users who said that two years ago.
This presentation was made at the OECD’s Workshop entitled: “The economic and social impacts of broadband communications: From ICT measurement to policy implications.”
Cancer “weather maps,” the age of biology, and how cell-only adults really are different from landline users.
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