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    Smartphone Adoption and Usage

    35% of US adults own a smartphone of some kind, and one quarter of smartphone owners say that their phone is where they do most of their online browsing.

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    How smartphone owners describe their phones

    Along with asking about smartphone adoption and usage in our May 2011 survey, we also included a question that asked cell phone owners to provide the one word that best describes how they feel about their phones.

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    Social Media Users Debate a Tea Party Favorite

    Criticism of a 2012 GOP presidential candidate dominated the conversation on blogs last week, while Twitter users got excited over a new social networking tool from Google. On YouTube, strange objects in the air over London generated the most views.

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    Tweeters

    Among online adults, 13% use the status update service Twitter.

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    Twitter-Adoption Gap

    A 16-point Twitter-adoption gap separates black online adults and white online adults.

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    Social networking sites and our lives

    How people’s trust, personal relationships, and civic and political involvement are connected to their use of social network sites and other technologies.

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    How Communities Learn

    Lee Rainie explores the role of social networks – the technological kind as well as the real-world kind – in shaping the way people gather community information and make sense of it.