New Media Index: Our Weekly Content Analysis
This section contains the complete archive of all the PEJ New Media Indexes. They are published below in chronological order, but our archive is also searchable. Use the key word search on the left to find reports about specific news events.
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 28, 2009 | | In a week in which no single event dominated blogs and social media, the results of a California referendum and the shooting of an up-and-coming rapper led the online conversation. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 21, 2009 | | As was the case with the mainstream media, interrogation techniques and the President’s reversal on the release of prisoner photos led the blogosphere conversation last week. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 14, 2009 | | Bloggers and social media balanced their attention last week among a wide array of subjects that differed dramatically from top stories in the mainstream media. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: May 7, 2009 | | Bloggers last week debated whether the worldwide swine flu outbreak was a serious public health menace or a case of excessive media hype. And Arlen Specter’s change of parties stirred a partisan debate over the state of the GOP. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: April 30, 2009 | |
Two hot button issues, torture and same-sex
marriage, were the leading subjects sparking conversation online last week.
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| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: April 23, 2009 | | Bloggers were caught up last week in two major stories: the confrontation with Somali pirates and the April 15 Tea Party protests. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: April 16, 2009 | | The online community was focused on two subjects that received little attention in the mainstream press last week—the debate over gay marriage and the death of a man at the G20 Summit. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: April 9, 2009 | | Bloggers and social media eschewed the economic crisis and European summitry last week to focus on a group of diverse topics ranging from journalism to political activism to environmentalism. Meanwhile the week’s most viewed YouTube video featured a trick shot from a basketball superstar. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: April 2, 2009 | | The economic crisis again dominated blogs and social media last week, as the conversation expanded from AIG to several different elements of the financial meltdown. And the most viewed video was an overseas variation on the same theme. |
| | Source: PEJ Research; Date Posted: March 26, 2009 | | With the AIG bonuses fueling outrage, the economic crisis received more attention from the social media last week than any other topic since PEJ began its NMI two months ago. And the week’s most viewed video was a casting call that turned into a stampede. |
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