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  More Americans Look to the Web for Government Info

  JP 1:48 am on April 30, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  As we’ve said before, regardless of your political affiliation, it’s hard to argue with the fact that the Obama administration has helped to usher in the Government 2.0 era. It’s not just the feds, though. Local and state governments are taking tentative steps towards digital transparency too, offering scads of raw data and information via revamped websites. According to a recent survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, these new tools aren’t going to waste either, as more and more people are turning to government-run sites to find out about benefits, services, legislation and statistics.

  Perhaps most surprising about the findings is just how many Americans are digging deep into the information available. According to Pew, 40-percent of adult Internet users have used government sites to look at so-called raw data, like unprocessed stats about stimulus spending, the full texts of bills and campaign contribution data. In total, 81-percent of those polled had received information about government policy and programs from the Web, including online videos and social networking services.

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  More Americans Look to the Web for Government Info originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  More Americans Look to the Web for Government Info

  JP 1:47 am on April 29, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: adult internet users (2), government (10), nbsp (1,601), pew internet and american life, pew internet and american life project (6), Read (1,390), Web (70)

  Filed under: Cell Phones, Web, Social Networking

  

  As we’ve said before, regardless of your political affiliation, it’s hard to argue with the fact that the Obama administration has helped to usher in the Government 2.0 era. It’s not just the feds, though. Local and state governments are taking tentative steps towards digital transparency too, offering scads of raw data and information via revamped websites. According to a recent survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, these new tools aren’t going to waste either, as more and more people are turning to government-run sites to find out about benefits, services, legislation and statistics.

  Perhaps most surprising about the findings is just how many Americans are digging deep into the information available. According to Pew, 40-percent of adult Internet users have used government sites to look at so-called raw data, like unprocessed stats about stimulus spending, the full texts of bills and campaign contribution data. In total, 81-percent of those polled had received information about government policy and programs from the Web, including online videos and social networking services.

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  More Americans Look to the Web for Government Info originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Web News Reading Trumps Print in U.S., Finds Pew Poll

  JP 12:51 am on March 4, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  A new poll from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that Internet news sources continue to command more U.S. readers than both local and national newspapers. The Web overtook newspapers in 2008, and has only lengthened its lead, with 61-percent of adults saying they get at least some news online.

  More important than the Web’s growing popularity as a news source, though, is how users are interacting with it. People are becoming more active participants in the news cycle, with 37-percent saying they have created, commented on, or shared links pertaining to news content. Consumption is also mobilizing and becoming more personal; 33-percent of cell phone owners use their handsets to consume news, and 28-percent of surfers create customized homepages. The Internet has also increased the number of news sources that the average user reads; only 21-percent rely on a single outlet.

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  Web News Reading Trumps Print in U.S., Finds Pew Poll originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  More People Updating Their Status Than Ever, Study Finds

  JP 1:54 am on October 23, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  The human obsession with “status” is almost as old as human history itself. Though the word has a historically hierarchical connotation, contemporary usage of “status” often has a different, more Twitter-ized meaning. Yet the fascination remains strong and, in a hyper-connected world, is rapidly intensifying.

  According to a study conducted as part of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, approximately one in every five Internet users either maintains their status via some social networking medium like Twitter or Facebook, or uses similar sites to keep track of others’ statuses. A full 19-percent of those surveyed reported using status-updating Web sites, a marked increase from the 11-percent that similar surveys found last April and December.

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  More People Updating Their Status Than Ever, Study Finds originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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