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Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica
Sep 14, 2009
So is there a case for seeing two-way gaming as central to a definition of broadband? The cooperation/leadership argument may not be the strongest point, at least not if the implication is that games make gamers more helpful to society. A Pew Interne...
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Steven Davy, PBS MediaShift
Sep 3, 2009
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that for the first time a majority (55 percent) of voting-age adults engaged with politics online during the 2008 presidential election.
"In each consecutive, comparable election season sinc...
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BBC News
Sep 2, 2009
US civic engagement remains in the hands of the middle-class despite hopes that the internet would democratise political involvement.
Those are the findings of a report from the Pew Internet Project.
Online political engagement such as contacti...
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Associated Press
Sep 1, 2009
The Pew Internet and American Life Project says in a report Tuesday that people who participate in civic life online tend to be richer and better educated. That's not much different from the makeup in offline politics. Pew counts activities such as c...
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Kim Hart, The Hill
Sep 1, 2009
The Internet has prompted young adults to become much more politically active, but the technology has not succeeded in getting other historically inactive groups involved in civic activism, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Internet a...
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Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica
Sep 1, 2009
Partisans on these issues may experience the Pew Internet and American Life Projects' latest study as a bit of a downer. It says that cyberspace hasn't really affected activism all that much in at least one fundamental sense. "Just as in offline civi...
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Nicole Allan, The Atlantic
Sep 1, 2009
In 2004, Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s techie campaign manager, declared that “the Internet is the most democratizing innovation we’ve ever seen—more so even than the printing press.” Five years later, after ...
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Aliya Sternstein, NextGov.com
Sep 1, 2009
Wealthy and well-educated Americans dominate online civic activities, just as they have long dominated traditional civic involvement, according to a study released on Tuesday by Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. [...]
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Report
Sep 1, 2009Aaron Smith, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry Brady
Just as in offline politics, the well-off and well-educated are especially likely to participate in online activities that mirror offline forms of engagement. But there are hints that social media may alter this pattern.
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