---
title: "The Commons of the Tragedy"
description: "The speech covers our basic findings about how people used the Internet immediately after 9/11."
date: "2002-03-06"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2002/03/06/the-commons-of-the-tragedy/"
categories:
  - "International Terrorism"
  - "Social Media"
  - "Terrorism"
tags:
  - "News"
---

# The Commons of the Tragedy

The speech covers our basic findings about how people used the Internet immediately after 9/11 and it highlights some of the content analysis we did about how people used bulletin boards, memorial sites, chat rooms and listservs to develop their understanding of the event.