Lee Rainie — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Director of Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center, focusing on the potential future impact of the digital revolution.
Founding Director of Internet and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, established in 2000.
Led the Pew Internet Project, issuing more than 850 reports based on surveys and data-science research.
Co-author of "Networked: The new social operating system" and five other books about the future of the internet.
Former managing editor of U.S. News & World Report and politics reporter for New York Daily News.

Biography

Lee Rainie serves as the Director of Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center. This research initiative, renamed in 2024 with an expanded agenda, focuses on the potential future impact of the digital revolution and the likely evolution of digital change, aiming to inform important conversations and policy formation.