Do parents worry about the growing amount of time their children spend with media? One new study suggests that most parents are largely unconcerned. And perhaps no wonder: Parents who show little concern about their children’s use of technology themselves spend big chunks of their leisure time with media. The study, […] Read more »
Reason-Rupe Poll: Americans Want Senate to Drop Gun Control, But Oppose 3D-Printed Guns
President Barack Obama has vowed to keep pushing for new gun control measures and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the failed gun vote in the Senate was “just the beginning.” However, the latest Reason-Rupe national poll finds just 33 percent of Americans feel the “Senate should debate and vote […] Read more »
Radiovoter: The ‘Like’ Button That Came Before Facebook
Talking back to our broadcast media seems to be an integral part of the early 21st century experience. … It might seem like something that’s just started popping into conversations recently, but the idea is as old as broadcasting itself. In 1934, a New York research engineer named Dr. Nevil Monroe […] Read more »
The G.O.P.’s Digital Makeover
The Republican Party faces hurdles as it attempts to equal or surpass the Democratic Party’s success in capitalizing on technological innovation to win President Obama a second term. It was only two presidential elections ago, in 2004, that the political classes were talking about Republican domination of data mining and […] Read more »
Could Google tilt a close election?
Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil.” But what would it mean for democracy if it was? That’s the question psychologist Robert Epstein has been asking in a series of experiments testing the impact of a fictitious search engine — he called it “Kadoodle” — that manipulated search rankings, giving an […] Read more »
Beyond Smartphones: Envisioning the Next Generation of Data Collection Devices
Mobile data collection has garnered significant attention among survey researchers in the last few years. … Incorporating the devices requires research to determine when and how they can be used with acceptable results (i.e., produce quality data). At the same time we are conducting this research, new devices are being […] Read more »