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Truly a World Wide Web
Summary of Findings As the pace of modernization accelerates around the globe, so too has computer usage and access to the internet. The latest Pew Global Attitudes poll found substantially more people...
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Global Publics Embrace Social Networking
Although still a relatively young technology, social networking is already a global phenomenon. In regions around the world – and in countries with varying levels of economic development – people who...
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Technology usage is strongly correlated with national income across the countries surveyed. Countries with a higher GDP per capita generally have higher rates of smartphone ownership and internet and...
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Internet Seen as Positive Influence on Education but Negative on Morality in...
As more people around the world gain access to all the tools of the digital age, the internet will play a greater role in everyday life. And so far, people in emerging and developing nations say that...
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Cell Phones in Africa: Communication Lifeline
In a few short years, the proliferation of mobile phone networks has transformed communications in sub-Saharan Africa. It has also allowed Africans to skip the landline stage of development and jump...
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Smartphone Ownership and Internet Usage Continues to Climb in Emerging Economies
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, both economically and socially, technology adoption remains one of the defining factors in human progress. To that end, there has been a noticeable...
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1. Internet access growing worldwide but remains higher in advanced economies
In many advanced economies, the ubiquity of the internet is now a given. It permeates commerce, social interactions, politics, culture and daily life. But this is not the case in all parts of the...
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2. Smartphone ownership rates skyrocket in many emerging economies, but...
In just the past two years, there has been a vast increase in the share of people in many emerging nations surveyed who report owning a smartphone. Despite these rapid changes, richer countries in the...
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3. Social networking very popular among adult internet users in emerging and...
Once online, people in emerging and developing nations are hungry for social interaction. Majorities of adult internet users in almost every emerging and developing nation surveyed say that they use...
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About the Pew Research Center’s Spring 2015 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research...
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This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Jacob Poushter, Senior Researcher Richard Wike, Director, Global Attitudes Research James Bell, Vice...
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Appendix A
Economic categorization For this report we grouped countries into three economic categories: “advanced,” “emerging” and “developing.” These categories are fairly common in specialized and popular...
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Truly a World Wide Web
Summary of Findings As the pace of modernization accelerates around the globe, so too has computer usage and access to the internet. The latest Pew Global Attitudes poll found substantially more people...
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Global Publics Embrace Social Networking
Although still a relatively young technology, social networking is already a global phenomenon. In regions around the world – and in countries with varying levels of economic development – people who...
View ArticleGreater Technology Use Linked to Higher Per Capita Income
Technology usage is strongly correlated with national income across the countries surveyed. Countries with a higher GDP per capita generally have higher rates of smartphone ownership and internet and...
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Internet Seen as Positive Influence on Education but Negative on Morality in...
As more people around the world gain access to all the tools of the digital age, the internet will play a greater role in everyday life. And so far, people in emerging and developing nations say that...
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Internet Seen as Positive Influence on Education but Negative on Morality in...
As more people around the world gain access to all the tools of the digital age, the internet will play a greater role in everyday life. And so far, people in emerging and developing nations say that...
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Cell Phones in Africa: Communication Lifeline
In a few short years, the proliferation of mobile phone networks has transformed communications in sub-Saharan Africa. It has also allowed Africans to skip the landline stage of development and jump...
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