{"id":32469,"date":"2011-01-16T10:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32469"},"modified":"2013-11-19T04:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:33:52","slug":"the-increasing-relevance-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/16\/the-increasing-relevance-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Increasing Relevance of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/689\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center report<\/a> reveals the rising use of the Internet as a news source in the U.S.:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/1.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32471\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/1.png\" width=\"290\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Internet is the most frequently reported source of news for adults under 30, but it&#8217;s relevance is rising in all categories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/225.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32472\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/225.jpg\" width=\"551\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/225.jpg 612w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/225-440x500.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to younger people, people who are more educated, have higher incomes, and live in the West are also more likely to use Internet as a source of news. See the full press release <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/689\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2011\/01\/13\/visualize-this-where-the-public-gets-its-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flowing Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Pew Research Center report reveals the rising use of the Internet as a news source in the U.S.: The Internet is the most frequently reported source of news for adults under 30, but it&#8217;s relevance is rising in all categories: In addition to younger people, people who are more educated, have higher incomes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,129,140],"class_list":["post-32469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-media","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59252,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32469\/revisions\/59252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}