The material people contribute to the online world The maxim is true: Anyone can be a publisher on the Web and many Internet users are. They have contributed to the online commons by creating or contributing to Web sites, posting photos, and sharing files. They are taking advantage of new Web applications like blogging and, […]
44% of American Internet users have contributed their thoughts and digital content to the online world
10:30am-Noon Washington, D.C. Speakers: Congressman David Price (D-NC) Congressman Mark Souder (R-IN) David Brooks, columnist, The New York Times; Contributing Editor, Newsweek E.J. Dionne, Jr., Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; columnist, Washington Post Writers Group Moderator: Luis Lugo, Director, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life LUIS LUGO: Good morning, and thank you all […]
52% of rural adults go online.
Rural users have waded knee-deep into the Web. One way to gauge how much the Internet has become part of users’ everyday lives is to examine the online activities that users pursue. In general, the Internet is less a fixture of rural residents’ lives than urban and suburban residents’ lives. Some activities are universally popular, […]
Three-quarters of Internet users have looked for information on their hobbies or interests. 77% of Internet users have searched for hobby or interest information online as of January 2002. That represents growth of 40% from 65 million who had pursued hobby information online as of March 2000, to 91 million who had done so by […]
Major changes in technologies of access, the maturation of Internet users, and the development of new applications and content are three likely factors that have contributed to the growth of online pursuits. Since the Pew Internet & American Life Project began its research in 2000, the applications available on the Internet have changed dramatically, the […]
