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Where has the internet fallen short of expectations? Since so many of the experts we contacted were early adopters of the internet, we asked them to think back to their views a decade ago and assess where the use or impact of the internet has fallen short of expectations. Many experts are disappointed that spam […]

The musicians we surveyed are highly wired and engaged online. The data on musicians referenced throughout this section of the report was gathered through a non-random online sample of 2,793 musicians, songwriters and music publishers, recruited via email notices sent to members of various music organizations, through announcements on those organizations’ Web sites and through […]

Introduction The artists who responded to our survey were self-identified. This method of locating and questioning artists was modeled after an identification method used in an Urban Institute study of support structures for artists in the U.S.[4.numoffset=”4″ The Urban Institute Study, “Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structures for U.S. Artists” is available […]

Institutions After giving us some personal information in the survey such as their institutional affiliations, the experts were asked the following question, “On a scale of 1-10 with 1 representing no change and 10 representing radical change, please indicate how much change you think the internet will bring to the following institutions or activities in […]

Artists callback survey The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from November 3 to December 7, 2003, among a sample of 809 self-identified artists, 18 and older, who were interviewed in past Tracking surveys.  For results based on the total sample, one can […]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project thanks those who contributed their expertise and suggestions to the development of these surveys and the final report. Kristen Purcell at Princeton Survey Research Associates was particularly instrumental in crafting the surveys and imposing organization on an otherwise unruly set of research ideas. The Project would also like […]

As wired Americans increasingly go online for political news and commentary, a new survey finds that the internet is contributing to a wider awareness of political views during this year’s campaign season. This is significant because prominent commentators have expressed concern that growing use of the internet would be harmful to democratic deliberation. They worried […]