Lee Rainie

Lee Rainie is the Director of Internet and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, a non-profit, non–partisan “fact tank” that studies the social impact of the internet.

The Project has issued more than 750 reports based on its surveys that examine people’s online activities and the internet’s role in their lives. All of its reports and datasets are available online for free at: http://www.pewinternet.org.

Lee is a co-author of Networked: The new social operating system with sociologist Barry Wellman about the social impact of the internet, mobile phones and social media. He is also co-author of five books about the future of the internet that are based on Project surveys about the subject.