Lee Rainie is the Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, a non-profit, non–partisan “fact tank” that studies the social impact of the internet. The Project has issued more than 350 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 four books about the future of the internet that are based on Project surveys. He has also just published Networked: The new social operating system with sociologist Barry Wellman about the social impact of the internet and cell phones for MIT Press.

Prior to launching the Pew Internet Project, Lee was managing editor of U.S. News & World Report.