Princeton Survey Research Associates
PSRA conducted the survey that is covered in this report. It is an independent research company specializing in social and policy work. The firm designs, conducts, and analyzes surveys worldwide. Its expertise also includes qualitative research and content analysis. The firm can be reached at 911 Commons Way, Princeton, NJ, 08540, by telephone at 609-924-9204, by fax at 609-924-7499, or by e-mail at ResearchNJ@PSRA.com.
Elon University School of Communications
Elon University has teamed with the Pew Internet Project to complete a number of research studies, including the building of the Early ’90s Predictions Database and the Predictions Surveys on the site, Imagining the Internet (http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org), and a 2001 ethnographic study of families’ use of the Internet in a small town, “One Neighborhood, One Week on the Internet” (http://org.elon.edu/pew/oneweek/), both under the direction of Janna Quitney Anderson. For contact regarding the Predictions Database send e-mail to predictions@elon.edu. The university’s Web site is http://www.elon.edu/.
Many people at the university made this work possible. We owe special thanks to Elon’s President Leo Lambert and Provost Gerry Francis, School of Communications leaders Paul Parsons and Constance Book, University Relations Director Dan Anderson, designer Christopher Eyl, and copy editor Colin Donohue.
Ithiel de Sola Pool
Pool, a leading communications researcher of the 20th century, died in the mid-1980s, but he was a significant influence when vital decisions were being made regarding freedom on the Internet in the decades to follow.