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Lee Rainie is especially thankful for the help and support of his colleagues at the Pew Internet Project: Susannah Fox, Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, Kristen Purcell, Kathryn Zickuhr, and Cornelia Carter.
Elon University’s Imagining The Internet Center
The Imagining the Internet Center, an initiative of the School of Communications at Elon University, has teamed with the Pew Internet Project to complete a number of significant research studies, including the building of the Early ’90s Predictions Database and the series of Future of the Internet surveys (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 Imagining the Internet, 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 President Leo Lambert; Executive Vice President Gerry Francis; Provost Steven House; School of Communications leaders Paul Parsons and Connie Ledoux Book; editorial assistants Kassondra Cloos and Kacie Anderson; and Dan Anderson, assistant vice president for university relations.
Princeton Survey Research Associates
PSRA, an independent research company specializing in social and policy work, conducted the survey that is covered in this report. 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.
Ithiel De Sola Pool Inspired The Work
Pool, a leading communications researcher of the 20th century, inspired many Internet stakeholders with his books Forecasting the Telephone and