| Alessandro Ludovico on 26 Mar 2001 15:34:35 -0000 |
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| <nettime> study to document the social implications of the Internet |
From 'Edupage': IN SEARCH OF THE MEANING OF (ONLINE) LIFE The Philadelphia-based philanthropic organization Pew Charitable Trusts is financing a three-year, $5.9 million study to document the social implications of the Internet. The Pew Internet and American Life Project is less about why consumers are not using online "shopping carts" and more about who is online and why. So far, the year-old study has revealed that there are just as many women online as men, that women play more online games, that the Internet promotes social interaction and not isolation, and that much is made of privacy but Web surfers continue to give personal information away. The project uses old-fashioned telephone interviews from thousands of Americans to gather this information. The project has had to face some challenges, particularly when it reported that the Internet had little effect on the 2000 election. Online communities are presently the focus of the project's call center. Over the next few months, the project plans to report on how families and the faith community use the Internet as well as on how the government uses Web sites. (Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 March 2001) -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Online - http://www.neural.it/ Suoni Futuri Digitali - http://www.apogeonline.com/catalogo/614.html # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]