Lee Rainie Quotations

We live in a media age. In many respects, it is more important for people to be known in the media culture than to make money in the media culture.

One is that people are just too busy. When it comes to the ranking things they actively do in their life, making sure their job situation and their household situations are in good order is a higher priority than going out and looking for dates.

It is also a reflection of demand. In a county that isn't particularly wired up, there might not be much demand for a county Web site.

Part of the reason for that is resources,

The definition of dating has changed. Activities that people would have called dating in the 1950s, '60s and even the '70s, no longer seem like dates for modern daters. People today, especially young people, travel in groups and hang out in groups. They don't call it dating.

When I saw these figures for the first time I wasn't sure we had it right. But the more I talk to people about the more I'm hearing what people are saying.

The Pew actually allows respondents to decide themselves. I would say absolutely we're dealing with a term that is not particularly well-defined because blogging is a platform. Blogs can be so many different things to so many different people. The definition needs to be more about structure than content.

What's changed is the consumer is much more anxious to get the material they want, when they want and on the device they want it on.

As the mobile phone becomes an ever-more essential communications tool, we are beginning to get measures on some important societal impacts. The cell is playing a key role in our daily lives, whether it's used for emergencies or as the primary technology for our most basic interactions with others.

At the market level, this means old business models are in upheaval. At the legal level, this means the definition of property is up for grabs. And at the social level, it means that millions of those inspired to create have a big new platform with which they shape our culture.

E-mail is a tool that many people now use to deepen and improve their ties to family and friends. Use of the Internet actually enlarges and enriches most users' social worlds. And that is particularly true for women.

It was a huge increase on top of a pretty large base to begin with.

The spectrum runs from the completely debauched, awful kind of stuff, to the most high quality, high tone stuff.

That's just a reflection of a change in the online population. The typical user is no longer a young, white man, highly educated with lots of money. The Internet population is now more like America.

This is a pretty interesting and new passion for teens. Anybody who has thoughts or interesting things to say or a beef with the world can use this incredibly powerful publishing tool.

They had their moment in the tsunami coverage, when the BBC and other (established media) opened their websites to them.

They had a special kite-making program, so the kids got to make their own kites. All of the kids in my group were in to the experience, and they really wanted to show me their work and see what I thought of it, and to have them coming to me to seek that sort of validation showed me a glimpse of how important they are to me and potentially how important and connected I am to them.

There's a lot of experimenting and showing off going on. Eventually the better stuff will survive, and people doing it for a thrill will fade away.

For Internet users, it's so much easier to do this online.

For a lot of people now, especially those with broadband connections, the first place they go to for information is online. But people are still warming up to the idea that lots of information about them is online.

It's clear that the Internet is being woven into people's most important relationships.

These teens were born into a digital world where expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each other and lots of strangers,

Aristotle made the statement that humans are social animals. We like to see each other, know what each other is doing and share with each other. That yearning for connection has driven the rise of the Internet.

In a very literal sense, the whole world's a stage for them.

If you do some harm to the company, you can't expect that the company is not going to respond.

If you're cooking dinner and wondering what ingredients to put in your meal, if you had a dial-up connection you would probably go to your cookbook,