You are about to see a host of references to a new batch of numbers from the Pew Internet & American Life project pop up all over the place. The headline is tantalizing: 65 percent of those surveyed this fall paid for online content. But what does it mean?

Young adults are the heaviest social media users but older adults are fueling the growth. Wired adults 50 and older nearly doubled use of social networking in the past year, according to the latest Pew Internet & American Life report, something I’ve seen anecdotally as my friends and family members…

The latest report on online news economics from Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism is one of those studies that will bolster just about any view people have about paying for news online. Want to show that news consumers are unwilling to pay?  Results from a national phone survey conducted…

The audience for YouTube and other video sharing websites has risen sharply in the past year, with almost half of online adults logging onto such sites, reports a study from Pew Internet & American Life Project. In a national phone survey of 2,054 adults, 48 percent said they have visited…