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Surfing for Fun
On any given day, about 40 million internet users go online just for fun The internet is increasingly a place where Americans just hang out. Surfing the Web has become one of the most popular...
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Hobbyists Online
83% of online Americans have used the internet to pursue their hobbies; The size of the daily online hobbyist population has increased substantially in the past five years. Sara Greenleaf had taken up...
View ArticleBoot Camp for Internet Addicts?
Many Americans (myself included) spend a large portion of their days on the internet. Whether it is going through piles of email, reading news sites and blogs, catching up with friends or playing...
View ArticleIs it possible to end the opposition between books and the internet?
According to a recent study from the national endowment for the Arts, those people who read books and other printed matter in their private time are a declining portion of the American population. The...
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The Future of the Internet III
Findings Technology stakeholders and critics were asked in an online survey to assess scenarios about the future social, political, and economic impact of the Internet and they said the following: The...
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The Internet as a Diversion
Introduction In the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s report “The Internet and the Recession”, we identified a group of individuals we call “online economic users”. This group—which comprises...
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The internet as a diversion and destination
Main findings Americans are increasingly going online just for fun and to pass the time. On any given day, 53% of all the young adults ages 18-29 go online for no particular reason except to have fun...
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Why people like to read
In our recent report on the rise of e-reading, we asked those who had read a book in the past 12 months to tell us what they like most about book reading. They gave a host of reasons that ranged from...
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Coming and Going on Facebook
Two-thirds of online American adults (67%) are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site in this country.1 And new findings from the Pew Research Center’s Internet &...
View ArticleAmericans’ Reading Habits Over Time
Explore the changes in Americans' reading habits, from decreases in printed books to rises in e-books, over time in this interactive.
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Book Reading 2016
Americans today have an enormous variety of content available to them at any time of day, and this material is available in a number of formats and through a range of digitally connected devices. Yet...
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