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Introduction Wired parents and non-parents participate in many Internet activities in roughly the same proportions. These include using email, searching for financial information, accessing online news, participating in auctions and online, and doing general browsing. However, we have found in our analysis of the most common online activities that certain behaviors characterize online parents as […]

Introduction In a December 2000 survey of 754 parents and an equal number of children in their homes between the ages of 12 and 17, we found that Internet use is changing some of the ways teens interact with their friends. We also saw that the Internet is introducing new dynamics into family life. In […]

At a reporter’s request, we took a special look at those ages 38-56 and compared them to those ages 18-29 and those 65 and older.

Communicating with citizens Eighty-two percent of online local officials use email to communicate with citizens.  Sixty percent do so at least weekly, and 21% do so every day.  Those in larger cities tend to email citizens more frequently.  Almost half (49%) of online officials in cities over 150,000 email citizens daily, while only 9% of […]

The features on municipal Web sites Municipal officials indicate that incorporation of the Internet into civic affairs is widespread.  Eighty percent reported that their city had a Web site.  Seventy-one percent said their cities provide their staffs with both Internet and email access, and another 21% provide access to either the Internet or email. The […]

Comparing email to other kinds of communications We asked officials to tell us how citizens contact them, and what kinds of contact carry the most weight with those who are elected city leaders.   Consistent with our anecdotal findings that Americans do not rely heavily on the Internet for local purposes, online officials say citizens are […]

Conclusions Some local governments are taking the lead in bringing the Internet into community life.  More local governments have Web sites than Americans are aware of.  And local officials are embracing email as a tool in their constituent relations, perhaps to a degree that many of their constituents do not fully appreciate.  The scale of […]

Politics is local. The Internet is global. Where do the two meet? The last three years have provided powerful evidence of how the Internet and email have entered national and international political life.  Activists used it mobilize interested citizens and to handle the logistics of organizing such mass demonstrations as the 1999 protests at the […]