Internet and Everyday Life

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Internet and Everyday Life
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Diffusion

• At about 60 penetration
• Education gt Income

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Time

• Currently at about 2 hrs/week
• Education gt Income
• Site visits similar across time

4
Time Effects Social Life

• IT Society Issue 1 20 studies, only 3 show
  social life decline
• GSS 2002 slightly higher personal and phone
  contacts than 2000

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Uses

• Higher than other media for health and job-seeking

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Digital Divide

• Access ? Equipment ? Knowledge ? Social Networks

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User Skills and Frustration

• IT Society Issue 3 Undeveloped skills in
  searching
• Difficult sites to use
• Skills lead to different search patterns
• Work time lost to frustration/poor design

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Diversity Divide

• Complex attitude/opinion differences among Web
  Users.

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Third Annual Webshop

• June 2003
• 50 graduate students
• 50 speakers
• More info
• www.webuse.umd.edu