The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood. Now ranging in age from 18 to 331, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry— and optimistic about the future. CONT. Pew Read more »
The Web at 25 in the U.S.
… Since 1995, the Pew Research Center has documented this explosive adoption of the internet and its wide-ranging impacts on everything from: the way people get, share, and create news; the way they take care of their health; the way they perform their jobs; the way they learn; the nature […] Read more »
Big (Bad) Data
… Social media and Big Data, the term du jour for the collection of vast troves of information that can instantaneously be synthesized, are supposed to help us make smarter, faster decisions. It seems as if just about every C.E.O. of a global company these days is talking about how […] Read more »
Teaming With Data-Mining Security Firms to Get a Lead on News
When Ronan Farrow, the young human rights lawyer with a Hollywood lineage, debuts as an MSNBC host on Monday, he will have some prodigious computing power backing him up. MSNBC has struck a partnership with Vocativ, a digital news start-up, to provide the new program — “Ronan Farrow Daily” — […] Read more »
In Tokyo elections, Twitter reveals voter preferences in a way surveys do not
… In many elections, voters choose their candidate along party lines. But in the case of the Tokyo governor, issues are believed to be more important than the party. We want to understand which issues are important, and how these issues vary across Tokyo. The Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shinbun has […] Read more »
‘Puppy Love’ Warms Hearts; Diversity Draws Mixed Response
The annual flood of data after the Super Bowl indicates that the commercials during the game that did best among consumers on television, online and in social media were feel-good spots meant to be uplifting, inspirational, nostalgic or patriotic. … Still, polls and surveys suggest, there was sharp divergence over […] Read more »