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Education The Internet at School 8/2/2005 \| Lee Rainie, Paul Hitlin There has been a 45% increase since 2000 in the number of teenagers who use the internet at school. Learn more Family, Friends & Community Teens and Technology 7/27/2005 \| Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Paul Hitlin Today’s American teens live in a world enveloped by communications technologies; the internet and cell phones have become a central force that fuels the rhythm of daily life. Learn more	Internet Evolution Tech Term Awareness 7/20/2005 \| Lee Rainie The average American internet user is not sure what podcasting is, what an RSS feed does, or what the term “phishing” means. Learn more Public Policy Spyware 7/6/2005 \| Susannah Fox Spyware and the threat of unwanted programs being secretly loaded onto computers are becoming serious threats online. Learn more	Health Health Information Online 5/17/2005 \| Susannah Fox Eight in ten internet users have looked online for information on at least one of 16 health topics, with increased interest since 2002 in diet, fitness, drugs, health insurance, experimental treatments, and particular doctors and hospitals. Learn more Public Policy Spam and Phishing 4/10/2005 \| Deborah Fallows More than a year after the CAN-SPAM Act became law, email users say they are receiving slightly more spam in their inboxes than before, but they are minding it less. Learn more

Do you play video games and online games? If so, we would like to hear more about the kinds of games you play and the amount of time you spend playing games each week. What would you say is the best thing about playing online games? Click here to answer Want your input to be featured in our next survey? Click here to take our poll online	Who's Online Online Activities Internet Adoption Usage Over Time The Elon/Pew Predictions Database is a searchable and browseable selection of predictive remarks made between 1990 and 1995 about the future of networked communications. Learn More	Friday, September 2, 2005 There’s the old saw that if you can’t program your VCR (or now maybe DVD or even TIVO?) that you should just hand the remote to the nearest child. Recent data collected by the Pew Internet Project suggest that the same is true when it comes to the internet. Posted by Amanda Lenhart at 12:29 PM Learn more