Two-thirds of American voters believe the National Security Agency’s surveillance program has prevented terrorist attacks. At the same time, most lack trust in both the federal government — and phone companies — to protect their private information. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
Millennials and Political News
When it comes to where younger Americans get news about politics and government, social media look to be the local TV of the Millennial generation. About six-in-ten online Millennials (61%) report getting political news on Facebook in a given week, a much larger percentage than turn to any other news […] Read more »
Customer Satisfaction With TV, Internet and Phone Service at 7-Year Low, Study Finds
Americans have long expressed dissatisfaction with their cable and Internet service. This year, they seem to have grown even more dissatisfied. The American Customer Satisfaction Index released on Tuesday the results of its latest study on customer satisfaction with cable TV, Internet and phone service providers, saying that the results […] Read more »
Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance
The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden have brought new attention to debates about how best to preserve Americans’ privacy in the digital age. At the same time, the public has been awash with news stories detailing security breaches at major […] Read more »
Democracy and the Internet
American politics has long navigated uneasily between two forms of democracy: Republicanism and mass, or direct, democracy. … Advocates of direct democracy see the Internet as the tool that will give direct effect to their vision, curing defects in our democracy. The evidence isn’t really on their side. CONT. Mark […] Read more »
Methods can matter: Where Web surveys produce different results than phone interviews
Over the past year, Pew Research Center conducted an experiment to see if the mode by which someone was surveyed – in this case, a telephone survey with an interviewer versus a self-administered survey on the Web – would have any effect on the answers people gave. We used two […] Read more »