Part of the Pew Research Center, this site has been doing surveys and tracking Internet related activities since 2000. They started with a 2000 survey on the general role of the Internet and e-mail in people’s lives and they’ve been at it ever since.
The site contains timely reports, surveys, data on the use of technology. Topics range from online dating to banking to video sharing to the digital divide. Topics/reports are highlighted on the main page and one can also browse their topic categories. The information is presented in accessible formats and oftentimes, eye catching graphics are included (they call them infographics), such as this one on online dating.
If you like to manipulate data to create your own reports, they also provide data sets. Additionally, they provide information on the experts who work on this site, providing short biographies and contact information for each individual. Topics often times go beyond Internet or link to other non-Internet activities. For example, check out their report book readership. And just to put a plug for libraries, they have a section especially devoted to library issues!
Review by Laura Galvan-Estrada, SWC Librarian
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