The Internet and Collecting the History of the Present
This speech covers our findings related to how people used the Internet just after the 9/11 terror attacks and our follow-up survey.
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This speech covers our findings related to how people used the Internet just after the 9/11 terror attacks and our follow-up survey.
This report contains the first scholarly studies built around analysis of hundreds of Web sites that have been cached in the September 11 Web Archives, and makes clear that no event in the Web era has so dominated so many Web sites in such a short, intense period of time.
This focus group-based study of Internet savvy middle and high school students found that students report a substantial disconnect between school-based and teacher-directed internet use and home internet use for school.
40 million Americans, one third of all Internet users, have looked online for information about a place to live.
Fifty-two million Americans have looked online for information about jobs, and more than 4 million do so on a typical day.
85% of American Internet users have ever used an online search engine to find information on the Web and 29% of Internet users rely on a search engine on a typical day. Only the act of sending or reading email outranks search-engine queries as an on…
The presentation highlights our findings about how broadband users are different from dial-up users.
Those who have home broadband connections use the Internet differently from those who have dial-up connections. Broadband users spend more time online, do more things, and do them more often than dial-up Internet users.
Information on the Web is important to significant numbers of Americans when they are making important choices related to education and job training, investments and big-ticket purchases, and health care for themselves or for loved ones. Online mater…
Sixty-eight million Americans have used the Web sites of government agencies, a figure up from 40 million such users two years ago. They exploit their new access to government in wide-ranging ways, finding information to further their civic, professi…
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