24% of teens go online “almost constantly,” facilitated by the widespread availability of smartphones. Aided by the convenience and constant access provided by mobile devices, especially smartphones, 92% of teens report going online daily — including 24% who say they go online “almost constantly,” according to a new study from […] Read more »
U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015
The traditional notion of “going online” often evokes images of a desktop or laptop computer with a full complement of features, such as a large screen, mouse, keyboard, wires, and a dedicated high-speed connection. But for many Americans, the reality of the online experience is substantially different. Today nearly two-thirds […] Read more »
Millennials say keeping up with the news is important to them — but good luck getting them to pay for it
Most millennials don’t seek out news on social media, but the vast majority of them get news from social networks once they see it there, according to a report released today by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public […] Read more »
Twitter Traffic Reflects What People Like on TV, Study Says
Twitter might not be a window into the soul, but it does provide a clear view into what grabs our attention on television, according to new research being published this week. Nielsen, the data company best known for its TV ratings, hooked up about 300 people to brain monitors and […] Read more »
Where ‘American Sniper’ Most Dominates Facebook Chatter
… As tens of millions of Americans get set to tune into the 87th Academy Awards on Sunday night, data from Facebook mapped by The Wall Street Journal find remarkable splits on which films are generating conversation across the country — and people’s tastes, in many ways, follow the familiar […] Read more »
Americans favor media self-censorship of images of beheadings by ISIS
A national survey by the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication (CPC) has found that a large majority of Americans say the news media should not show images of beheadings by the organization ISIS. Seventy percent of those surveyed opposed such media images, while 26 percent said the news […] Read more »