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Most Facebook Users Have Taken a Break From the Site, Study Finds
Facebook is the most popular social network in America — roughly two-thirds of adults in the country use it on a regular basis.
But that doesn’t mean they don’t get sick of it.
A new study released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center‘s Internet and American Life Project found that 61 percent of current Facebook users admitted that they had voluntarily taken breaks from the site, for as many as several weeks at a time.
Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/02/pew-research-center-tablet-ownership-report/
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that more Americans than ever now own tablets, but if you’d ever wanted some quantifiable data to go along with that homespun wisdom, then the Pew Research Center is glad to help. According to its latest report, 22 percent of US adults now own a tablet of some form. While the iPad remains the dominant player in the space with a 52 percent market share, this figure starkly contrasts the 81 percent share that Pew reported in 2011. As you might expect, Android tablets have made significant inroads and now account for 48 percent of the overall tablet space. Leading the Android charge is the Kindle Fire, which alone accounts for 21 percent of all tablets sold. It’s worth pointing out that Pew’s survey was conducted before the release of either the Nexus 7 or the Kindle Fire HD, which means that even the most recent information is a bit behind the curve. You’ll find a press release after the break that provides a much broader take on Pew’s latest findings in the mobile space, but those who want to go straight to the meat should hit up the source link below.
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Pew Research finds 22 percent of adults in US own tablets, low-cost Android on the rise originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You’d Be Surprised By The Content People Want To See On YouTube
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/viewers-turn-to-youtube-for-news-2012-7
YouTube has gained a reputation for hosting mindless video content. But new research from Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that about a third of the time, a news story is the topic viewers are most interested in seeing.
Looking at YouTube’s internal data, Pew found that in four months of 2011, a news topic was the subject most viewers were looking for. The most searched topics included a fatal motorcycle accident, the Japanese Earthquake and the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
The power of a news story to take over YouTube was demonstrated in the week after the March 2011 earthquake in Japan, when all of the top 20 news-related videos dealt with the natural disaster for a combined 96 million views.
According to Pew, the research shows that although entertainment videos continue to dominate the YouTube landscape, a single news story can instantly rule the site:
News events are inherently more ephemeral than other kinds of information, but at any given moment news can outpace even the biggest entertainment videos.
The power of YouTube as a news source has a great impact on traditional televised broadcast journalism as well. It allows ordinary citizens across the world to publish videos without the influence of overarching news corporation and sponsor-minded producers.
In fact, 42 percent of the most viewed news videos were raw footage that had been completely unedited. In addition, the Pew Center found that unlike corporate news, YouTube news stories were not personality-oriented, with 65 percent of the most popular news videos not featuring anyone at all.
As YouTube and other video sites continue to grow, the sites become a more viable medium as the news outlet of the future. Pew found that in 2011, over a quarter of Americans who use the Internet went on YouTube or a site like it everyday.
YouTube has become such a news-centric hub that it has started to make some governments nervous. China, Iran and Libya, for example, have all at one time banned YouTube for fear of the information that was being made available through its videos.
Despite all of this, televised news still greatly surpasses online news videos in terms of views.
Pew says that YouTube’s place as an international news source is significant because unlike televised broadcasts and cable news shows it allows viewers to ”determine the news agenda for themselves.”
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Dramatic Declines In Usage of Traditional News Sources; Internet The Only One Growing
Source: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/168697/where-did-they-hear-that.html
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Campaign News Sources |
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% of Consumers Who Regularly Get Campaign News From: |
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Source |
2000 |
2004 |
2008 |
2012 |
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Cable news |
34% |
38% |
38% |
36% |
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Local TV news |
48 |
43 |
40 |
32 |
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Network news |
45 |
35 |
32 |
26 |
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Internet |
9 |
13 |
24 |
25 |
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Local paper |
49 |
31 |
31 |
20 |
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Source: Pew Research Center, January 4-8, 2012 |
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6 Charts About The Future Of Learning
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/future-learning-charts-2011-12
This past summer, the Pew Research Center published a report on the “Digital Revolution and Higher Education.” The whole report is worth a read, but we’re drawn to the charts. Here are a few.
In these, only 15% of college presidents said that most of their students have taken a class online. But half think that 10 years from now, most students will take classes online.
Interestingly, college presidents see a greater educational value for online learning than the general public. Some 51% of college presidents polled said online courses offer an equal educational value, compared to classroom courses, versus just 29% of the public.
Here, we start to see which types of colleges are leading the way in online learning: community colleges and less-selective colleges. Those trends are expected to lead the way, with 4-year private school presidents considering their undergrad student bodies the least likely to be taking online classes.
Not surprising: 62% of college presidents think that more than half of student textbooks will be entirely digital in 10 years. Only 7% of college presidents think that less than 25% of student textbooks will be entirely digital.
What’s helping that trend? Apple’s iPad. Here’s a bonus chart from Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker showing just how fast the iPad is gaining steam relative to the iPhone and iPod.
More from our special report on The Future of Learning:
- 15 Education And Learning Startups You Need To Know
- POLL: What Technology Will Change Learning The Most?
- Teach Your Kids How To Code, Not How To Speak Chinese
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- 15 Education And Learning Startups You Need To Know
- Special Report: The Future Of Learning
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Pew’s 2010 Mobile Access survey shows more people are doing more things on their phones
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/08/pews-2010-mobile-access-survey-shows-more-people-are-doing-more/
As smartphones continue to extend their pocket-swelling domination of the mobile market, it should come as no surprise that people are less worried about talking and more concerned with doing other stuff on their handsets than ever before. But, still, if you want some hard numbers to make you feel better about making such conclusions, the Pew Research Center‘s 2010 Mobile Access survey has ‘em. Compared to April of last year, 76% of people take pictures with their phones, up from 66%, and over a third play games, up from about a quarter. A third of people now play music on their phones, compared to 21% in 2009, but the biggest jump is in recording video: 34% vs. 19% before. Given the number of new movie-capturing phones released over the past year, it’s easy to see why. So, no shocking numbers here, but sadly there’s no indication of the one usage statistic we think might actually be falling: making calls.
Pew’s 2010 Mobile Access survey shows more people are doing more things on their phones originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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