Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Internet and Technology

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    The Shifting Internet Population Recasts the Digital Divide Debate

    20% of non-Internet users live in a house with an Internet connection WASHINGTON – There is far more fluidity in the Internet population than most analysts imagine. About a quarter of Americans live lives that are quite distant from the Internet – they have never been online, and don’t know many others who use the […]

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    The Internet and the Iraq war

    WASHINGTON–Some 77% of online Americans have used the Internet in connection with the war in Iraq. They are going online to get information about the war, to learn and share differing opinions about the conflict, to send and receive emails about events, to express their views and to offer prayers. In addition, a smaller portion […]

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    What online citizens like to see and do

    The Internet offers a variety of activities to the online citizenry. The survey asked whether respondents ever engaged in eleven of them, and this table displays the results.

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    Email is now a main channel for politics

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 20) – Email has become an increasingly popular and potent tool for political communication in America. Two-thirds of politically engaged Internet users during the 2002 election cycle sent or received email related to the campaign. But campaigners said they had more success using the Net to communicate with the press than with […]