Pew Research Center
As schools close due to the coronavirus, some U.S. students face a digital ‘homework gap’
As K-12 officials in many states close schools and shift classes and assignments online due to the spread of the new coronavirus, they confront the reality that some students do not have reliable access to the internet at home – particularly those who are from lower-income households. Here are key findings about the internet, homework and how the digital divide impacts American youth:
Most Americans rely on their own research to make big decisions, and that often means online searches (Pew Research Center)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 03/05/2020 - 09:35Few Americans are confident in tech companies to prevent misuse of their platforms in the 2020 election (Pew Research Center)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 17:45Many Tech Experts Say Digital Disruption Will Hurt Democracy
Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center canvassed technology experts in the summer of 2019 to gain their insights about the potential future effects of people’s use of technology on democracy. Overall, 979 technology innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers, and activists responded to the following query:
Concern about influence of made-up news on the election is lowest among those paying the least attention (Pew Research Center)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/19/2020 - 19:06Fast facts about the newspaper industry’s financial struggles as McClatchy files for bankruptcy (Pew Research Center)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 02/14/2020 - 10:53Democrats, Republicans each expect made-up news to target their own party more than the other in 2020 (Pew Research Center)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/11/2020 - 06:33Democrats on Twitter more liberal, less focused on compromise than those not on the platform (Pew Research Center)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 02/03/2020 - 10:04Most Americans support right to have some personal info removed from online searches
Americans prefer to keep certain information about themselves outside the purview of online searches. Given the option, 74% of US adults say it is more important to be able to “keep things about themselves from being searchable online,” while 23% say it is more important to be able to “discover potentially useful information about others.”