PEJ Releases New Study on Media's Coverage of Technology's Affects on Society

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a new study, When Technology Makes Headlines: The Media’s Double Vision About the Digital Age, looking at media coverage of the impact, positive and negative, of technology’s affect on society.

The report examined 437 technology-related stories from52 mainstream news outlets including cable news, network news, news Web sites, radio news, and newspapers’ front pages, from June 1, 2009-June 30, 2010.

Among the findings from When Technology Makes Headlines: The Media’s Double Vision About the Digital Age:

• Texting while driving was the subject of 9 percent of technology stories, dwarfing other topics — PEJ said it drew five times the coverage of the U.S.

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