The Presentations portion of the Pew Internet & American Life Project website is a repository for selected slides, presentations, articles and speeches presented by staff members at the Pew Internet & American Life Project. This section also contains Comments by members of the Pew Internet Project staff that expand upon ideas expressed in published reports, or comment upon emerging phenomena or current events. Latest Trends leads to charts and tables containing the Project's latest data findings.
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Teens, Video Games and Civics
Presented to Games, Learning and Libraries Conference
11/2/2008 | 
Presentation | Amanda Lenhart
In this presentation, Amanda discusses the Teens, Video Games and Civics report in-depth. She covers the basic demographics of teen gamers and the game-playing habits of American youth, as well as the social nature of game play and the relationship between game play and a teen's engagement in the civic, political and social life of his or her community.
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Participatory Medicine
Presented to Center for Connected Health Symposium
10/27/2008 | Presentation | Susannah Fox
The internet has changed people's expectations of their relationship with health professionals. One possible next step is the concept of participatory medicine.
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User Behavior and the Climate for Innovation
Presented to The Progress & Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit
8/22/2008 | Presentation | John Horrigan
Follow the link below to the text of John Horrigan's keynote speech to the Progress & Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit. The Summit's theme was "unlocking innovation" and the speech talks about what user behavior tells us about the current climate for innovation.
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Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)
Presented to Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
7/9/2008 | Presentation | Susannah Fox Jessica Vitak
Three "thermometers" of access show the disparities among various groups when it comes to internet access, cell phone use, and broadband access at home.
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Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Cyberbullying
Presented to Internet Safety Town Hall at the National Educational Computing Conference
6/30/2008 | Presentation | Amanda Lenhart
This presentation covers basic internet connectivity statistics before launching into a discussion of the major online safety issues. Broken down into issues of online contact vs online content, the talk shares data on online stranger contact, sexual victimization and cyberbullying and exposure.
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China's earthquake and internet
Presented to Chinese Internet Research Conference
6/13/2008 | Presentation | Deborah Fallows
People say the Chinese internet is mostly an entertainment network. But looking at what happened online during the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake reveals a Chinese internet with a depth and soul and much, much more.
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Online child safety and literacy
Presented to The Point Smart / Click Safe Summit
6/10/2008 | Presentation | Lee Rainie
This presentation pulls together Pew Internet Project research about teenagers' online activities, their behavior on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and their Web 2.0 content creation activities. It covers the threats posed by cyberbullying, and stranger contact on the internet. and suggests that a new kind of competence we call "self literacy" is useful in the digital age.
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Participatory Medicine
Presented to National Institutes of Health
6/10/2008 | Presentation | Susannah Fox Mary Madden
In this presentation, Mary Madden and Susannah Fox discuss the rise of participatory medicine within the context of key internet demographics and emerging online trends.
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Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Harassment
Presented to Internet Safety Task Force, Washington, DC
4/30/2008 | Presentation | Amanda Lenhart
At the request of the Internet Safety Task Force, Amanda Lenhart presented the Pew Internet Project's most recent data on online stranger contact, cyberbullying, the steps that teens take to ensure (or not) their online privacy and the ways in which parents monitor and regulate the home computing environment.
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Science & Cyberspace: What User Behavior Means for Science Educators
Presented to Leadership Initiative in Science Education
4/28/2008 | Presentation | John Horrigan
This speech discusses the challenges and opportunities for the science community associated with more and more people turning to the internet for news and information about science.
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