Media Standards Trust

Stephen Coleman's report on civic engagement in young people argues against the prevailing orthodoxy. Coleman suggests young people are engaged but not through traditional structures. They want to par...

Source: Carnegie UK Trust, Carnegie UK Trust

2006

Keywords: citizenship, democracy, Internet, technology, trust, politics

Highlights of the USC digital future report (complete report available for purchase online). Digital Futures Project is a long term tracking study (6 years old) of a representative sample of Americans...

Source: Centre for the Digital Future, Center for the Digital Future

2007

Keywords: Digital, future, Internet, virtual community, web 2.0, blogs

Snapshot of the current state of political blogging in the UK (early 2004). Focuses on 8 'types' of political blog (the MPs blog, the candidates blog etc.). Most said the purpose of blogging was to pr...

Source: Hansard, Hansard Society

Jul-04

Keywords: blogs, Internet, online news, democracy, politics,

Five essays assessing the impact of the web on the 2005 UK election. Contributions include: Stephen Coleman on the need to use the internet for dialogue, not broadcast; Lusoll and Ward on who was onli...

Source: Hansard, Hansard Society

Jul-05

Keywords: Internet, government spin, PR, democracy, blogs, technology

Overview of research being conducted by the LSE's Media Department. Includes research into five thematic areas: democracy, globalisation, literacies, ethics, and policy. For each area the academics ar...

Source: LSE, LSE

Jun-05

Keywords: democracy, globalisation, internet, media literacy, ethics,

5,000 face to face interviews conducted across Europe in September 2006, exploring the European blogging experience. Finds that about 60% of Europeans (70 million people) have heard about blogs, and a...

Source: Ipsos-MORI, Ipsos MORI

Nov-06

Keywords: blogs, Internet, democracy, politics, trust, UGC

Richard Grant's research report on the democratisation of diplomacy, the nature of the problems as a result, and the implications for government foreign ministries

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute

Nov-04

Keywords: democracy, Internet, government

Survey of internet usage and impact based on 2185 face-to-face interviews. Copious statistics about number of people using the net, what they are using it for, and what impact they think it is having ...

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute

Jun-05

Keywords: Internet, media consumption, media ownership, e-government, self-regulation, technology, choice

Eli Noam's paper is part of a larger study at Columbia University of media concentration. Noam focuses on internet market concentration. Study suggests internet may move from entrepreneurial and liber...

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute

Aug-03

Keywords: Internet, access, competition, market dominance, democracy

Preliminary results of a new study into how the internet might reconfigure access to scientific information. Examines three possible models of development: reinforcement, democratisation and winner-ta...

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute

Mar-06

Keywords: globalisation, science, Internet, access, democracy

Exploring idea of trust on the internet, based on findings of Oxford Internet Institute's 2003 survey. Study shows wide variations in cybertrust. Experience tends to increase trust, except when it gen...

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute

Oct-03

Keywords: Trust, internet, technology, privacy

Executive summary of the PEJ's influential State of the News Media annual report. 2006 findings include: seismic transformation in what and how people learn about the world around them, power moving a...

Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism, Project for Excellence in Journalism

Jun-05

Keywords: Press, Internet, blogs, network TV, public views, radio, ethnic minorities, news investment,

Biennial Pew news consumption survey amongst 3,204 adults. Shows growth of internet as main source of news slowing. Supplementary source for many. Audience for online news broad not deep (many people ...

Source: Pew Center for Press & People, Pew Research Centre for People and Press

Jul-06

Keywords: Internet, online news, trust, technology

Survey amongst 1,464 Americans shows public becoming more critical of the press, although still favourable to news organisations overall. One third of all Americans under 40 cite the internet as their...

Source: Pew Center for Press & People, Pew Research Centre for People and Press

Jun-05

Keywords: Online news, print news, Internet, payment

Six page summary of global survey of internet usage (17 countries). Shows major increases in internet use since 2002, although widening gap between countries with high internet usage vs those with low...

Source: Pew Global Attitudes Project, Pew Global Attitudes Project

Feb-06

Keywords: globalisation, Internet, technology, media consumption

Nationally representative telephone survey about blogging. Reveals that 8% of Americans blog and 39% of Americans read blogs. 54% of those who blog have never published anywhere else. Most bloggers do...

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Internet and American Life Project

Jul-06

Keywords: Internet, bloggers

Each day approximately 50 million Americans turn to the internet for news. 70% American adults now have internet access. For a sizeable and influential group of broadband users, the internet is a prim...

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Internet and American Life Project

Mar-06

Keywords: Online news, Internet

Short background briefing on Web 2.0. The term is conceptual rather than technological, Madden and Fox say. Think participatory web - wikis, blogs and social networking. Describes dramatic growth in ...

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Internet and American Life Project

Oct-06

Keywords: Internet, web 2.0,

Survey of 1,286 technology experts and social analysts about future of the internet. 66% predicted serious attacks on network infrastructure. Most believed the internet would become deeply embedded in...

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Internet and American Life Project

Jan-05

Keywords: Internet, future,

A survey of 742 'technology thinkers and stakeholders' who were asked about the direction and impact of the internet on social, political and economic life in 2020. Agreed that world will get flatter ...

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Internet and American Life Project

Sep-06

Keywords: Internet, future,

Findings of daily tracking survey show internet is second only to television as source of news about science for Americans. 40m rely on internet as main sources of science news. Particularly true if ...

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Internet and American Life Project

Nov-06

Keywords: science, Online news, Internet

Part of an examination of the way that people's internet use affects their families, communities, healthcare, education, civic and political life, and workplaces. This 14 page study provides data on U...

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Internet and American Life Project

Jan-05

Keywords: Internet, lifestyles

An evaluation of how effectively the 100 most circulated US newspapers are using the internet. Study found that 76% of US newspapers offered RSS feeds and 80% had reporter blogs. However, only 19% all...

Source: Bivings, The Bivings Group

Aug-06

Keywords: Internet, newspapers, online news, America, blogs, RSS feeds