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Presentation
Dec 3, 2011Kathryn Zickuhr
Kathryn will discuss Pew Internet's data about the current digital divide(s) via Skype at the University of Kansas's virtual summit, "Telling Stories of Diversity in the Digital Age."
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Commentary
Oct 18, 2011Susannah Fox
Why do some people look online for health information while others do not?
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Media Mention
Pamela Lewis Dolan, American Medical News
Feb 21, 2011
Patient use of the internet has moved beyond what physicians used to refer to as Dr. Google -- the stacks of information printed from a Google search that patients would bring to the exam room.
So much of health care is moving online that many phy...
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Report
Feb 1, 2011Susannah Fox
Food safety, drug safety, and pregnancy information are among eight new topics included in our survey, which finds that 80% of internet users gather health information online.
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Commentary
Jan 26, 2011Susannah Fox
People living with disability are less likely than other adults in the U.S. to use the internet: 54%, compared with 81%. The first question many people ask when they hear that is, Why? The second is, What can be done? The third is, or should be, What...
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Media Mention
Wilson Rothman, msnbc.com
Jan 21, 2011
Several recent reports tell a troubling story about Americans with disabilities: While many would have no trouble using the Internet, a large percentage lack access to it in the home.
Consider these contrasting numbers: 54 percent of American adul...
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Report
Jan 21, 2011Susannah Fox
People living with disability are less likely than other adults to use the internet.
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Media Mention
Jesse Washington, Associated Press
Jan 10, 2011
Today, as mobile technology puts computers in our pockets, Latinos and blacks are more likely than the general population to access the Web by cellular phones, and they use their phones more often to do more things.
But now some see a new "digital...
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