Introduction In our 2005 report, “Teen Content Creators and Consumers,” we noted an important and emerging trend: teenagers were helping to lead the then-ascendant movement into the Web 2.0 era of participatory media. Online teens were utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet—creating and sharing their own media creations—at levels far higher than adults. At […]
The workshop on broadband metrics that is discussed here was held in June 2006, and in light of recent events, was either prescient or instrumental in helping to mobilize wider support for improving the state of our collective public knowledge of broadband networks. In May 2007, Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), with a number […]
There are several major findings in this report. One is this: For help with a variety of common problems, more people turn to the internet than consult experts or family members to provide information and resources.
In laying out the important data collection questions, workshop participants touched on five themes, to be discussed in detail in this section of the essay: Productivity: Why are accurate measures of broadband and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) important to measuring the economic productivity? Public policy and government intervention: If government chooses to intervene […]
Any research undertaking in the social sciences must confront the following questions: What is the evidence on which you base your conclusions? How reliable is that evidence? These questions permeated the papers and discussions at the workshop. As has been noted, speakers and participants concluded that the existing datasets all have limitations that inhibit their […]
Measuring Broadband: Problems and Possibilities A Workshop at the DC Office ofThe Pew Research Center1615 L St St. NW, 7th FloorWashington DC June 28, 2006 Co-sponsored by Pew Internet & American Life ProjectUniversity of Texas at Austin, with support from the National Science FoundationMassachusetts Institute of Technology Communications infrastructure plays an increasingly important role in […]
