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Lee Rainie is the former director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center.!
Lee Rainie is the Director of Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center, a research initiative focused on the potential future impact of the.
Lee Rainie
Director, Imagining the Digital Future Center
Lee Rainie joined the Imagining the Digital Future Center as director in 2023 after 24 years of directing Pew Research Center’s efforts to study the internet and technology.
While leader of Pew’s Internet and Technology Project, he and his team produced more than 850 reports about the social, political and economic impact of four newly emerging technology revolutions: the internet/broadband revolution, the mobile connectivity revolution, the social media revolution and the artificial intelligence revolution.
His partnership with Elon University began in 2000, when – as Pew Internet director – he began at first funding and then co-leading and publishing a remarkable series of “future of the internet” reports with Elon researchers.
His project was described by the American Sociological Association’s Public Sociology Award citing his team’s work at Pew as the “most authoritat