> > The Pew Internet and American Life Project announce the release of: > > A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users > > Fully 85% of American adults use the internet or cell phones - and > most > use both. Many also have broadband connections, digital cameras and > video game systems. Yet the proportion of adults who exploit the > connectivity, the capacity for self expression, and the > interactivity of > modern information technology is a modest 8%. > > Fully half of adults have a more distant or non-existent > relationship to > modern information technology. Some of this diffidence is driven by > people's concerns about information overload; some is related to > people's sense that their gadgets have more capacity than users can > master; some is connected to people's sense that things like blogging > and creating home-brew videos for YouTube is not for them; and some is > rooted in people's inability to afford or their unwillingness to > buy the > gear that would bring them into the digital age. > > These findings come from the Pew Internet Project's typology of > information and communication technology (ICT) users. The typology > categorizes Americans based on the amount of ICTs they possess, how > they > use them, and their attitudes about the role of ICTs are in their > lives. > Ten separate groups emerge in the typology. > > Here is a link to the complete report: > http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/213/report_display.asp > > What kind of information technology user are you? Answer a few > questions > to see where you fit in the new typology of information and > communication technology users developed by the Pew Internet Project. > Take our quiz here: > http://www.pewinternet.org/quiz/ > > > The Pew Internet Project is a non-profit, non-partisan initiative > of the > Pew Research Center that produces reports exploring the impact of the > internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, > health care, and civic/political life. Support for the non-profit Pew > Internet Project is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts. > > Please feel free to forward this email alert to colleagues, > friends, or > family members who might be interested in it. If you have received > this > message from a subscriber, you can sign up to receive your own alerts > at: http://www.pewinternet.org/signup.asp > > Cornelia Carter-Sykes > Manager, Pew Internet > Pew Research Center > 202-419-4513
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