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Wired seniors want to keep up to date, whether that means emailing their children or staying current with the news. Communication tops the agenda for wired seniors – but they generally stick to email. As noted, email is equally popular among Internet users age 65 or older and their younger counterparts. Fully 94% of wired […]
WASHINGTON – The percent of seniors who go online has jumped by 47% between 2000 and 2004. In a February 2004 survey, 22% of Americans age 65 or older reported having access to the Internet, up from 15% in 2000. That translates to about 8 million Americans age 65 or older who use the Internet. […]
Many seniors have no interest in going online. Those who do want to get access face significant barriers. Eight in ten off-line seniors do not think they will ever go online.[9.numoffset=”9″ Lenhart, 2003.] They often live lives far removed from the Internet, know few people who use email or surf the Web, and cannot imagine […]
Here are the questions that were asked in the survey: SP1 Thinking about your email… Do you have… (INSERT)?[1. In June 2003 this question was asked only of email users currently employed full or part-time. Trend figures are based on all email users, with those not currently employed included in the “no” response category.] SP2 […]
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, […]
52% of rural adults go online.
Rural Internet newcomers have mixed feelings about computers and technology, but more experienced users are more positive about them. Another way to measure diffusion of the Internet is the attitudes and beliefs that users and non-users hold toward it. For less experienced users, computers inspire mixed feelings. In all community types, larger percentages of new […]
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, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. January 12 – More than a third of the nation’s Internet users have gone online to get news and information, exchange emails about the race, or participate online in the current political campaign. Even among wired Americans, the Internet still lags far behind television and newspapers as voters’ main source of political news. […]