{"id":3409,"date":"2015-04-01T06:02:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T12:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.periniassociates.com\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2015-04-01T06:02:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T12:02:04","slug":"issues-attitudes-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/01\/issues-attitudes-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues, Attitudes and Trends You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are several reports that we at perini &amp; associates think are\u00a0worth reviewing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: \u00a0Pew Research Center. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: \u00a0Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. &#8220;We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions,&#8221; according to the PRC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology&#8217;s Impact on Workers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For all the technological developments in recent years, email is still critical: Six-in-ten (61%) working internet users say email is &#8220;very important&#8221; to doing their job. Just 7% of online job holders say the internet makes them less productive at work, but 35% say they spend more time working because of the internet, email and cellphones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/2014\/12\/30\/technologys-impact-on-workers\/\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"ft_title\">Social media preferences vary by race and ethnicity<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"holder\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"text clearfix\">\n<p>Today, about eight-in-ten Latino, black and white adults who are online use at least one of five social media sites \u2013 Facebook, I<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-266903 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/files\/2015\/02\/FT_15.01.27_latinoSocialMedia.png\" alt=\"Latinos', Blacks' Use of Social Media\" width=\"310\" height=\"673\" \/>nstagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Twitter. Among these, Facebook stands out as the most widely used platform, regardless of race or ethnicity: About seven-in-ten adult internet users (71%) say they use the site.<span id=\"more-266869\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/02\/03\/social-media-preferences-vary-by-race-and-ethnicity\/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&amp;utm_campaign=1e0aed1f6d-Feb_5_2015_Weekly_Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-1e0aed1f6d-399617497\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>America&#8217;s news anchors are less recognizable now, but network news is still alive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NBC\u2019s\u00a0suspension of anchor Brian Williams\u00a0from the helm of its flagship evening news program has led to some debate about the future for network television news.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/files\/2014\/01\/FT_anchor-recognition.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"495\" \/>Pew Research Center\u2019s surveys have found that national recognition for America\u2019s top news anchors isn\u2019t what it used to be. Just 27% of Americans\u00a0recognized a photo of Brian Williams\u00a0and correctly identified him in 2013 \u2013 a far cry from the 47% of Americans who could correctly identify Dan Rather in a 1985 poll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/02\/12\/americas-news-anchors-are-less-recognizable-now-but-network-news-is-still-alive\/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&amp;utm_campaign=7bf607cd05-Newsletter_Feb_12_20152_12_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-7bf607cd05-399617497\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are several reports that we at perini &amp; associates think are\u00a0worth reviewing. Source: \u00a0Pew Research Center. \u00a0 Note: \u00a0Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. &#8220;We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other data-driven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44],"tags":[488,489,490,102,120,491,492,103,493],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice-and-counsel","category-assessment-2","tag-488","tag-data","tag-news-anchors","tag-perini","tag-public","tag-science","tag-scientists","tag-technology","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}