This Pew Internet & American Life Project report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. Findings also include comments solicited by email to complete an online survey in May – June, 2003, to about 35 other internet users about their Internet searching. Telephone interviews were conducted […]
A table summarizing the results of a wide-ranging survey in which technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and interested members of the public assess the future of the internet.
In mid-2001, Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, approached officials at Elon University with an idea that the Project and the University might replicate the fascinating work of Ithiel de Sola Pool in his 1983 book Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment. Pool and his students had looked […]
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 […]