I have realized that being a college student now, I have spent a lot more time on the internet then I have ever before in my life. The internet is a very useful tool and if we didn’t have the internet, the libraries would be a lot more popular. Then I started thinking that actually now a days a lot of people use the internet much more, like for emails, looking at news, to look up pretty much anything. This was really interesting to me, so I decided to look around and find out really how much people use the internet.
I found this article called INTERNET AND SOCIETY:A PRELIMINARY REPORT by
Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring. The paragraph below is pretty much a summary with questions that they answer throughout the article
“Over the last five years, the revolution in information technology (IT) has resulted in innovations that are having increasingly visible effects on the life of the average American. These developments affect not only how people work, but where they work, how much they work, or with whom they interact face to face or electronically. Will future workers continue to share physical proximity with their colleagues, or work largely alone wedded to digital devices with occasional electronic mail or voice communication? What will these changes mean for social trust and social life beyond the family? Will the growing trend of working at home with the aid of IT help strengthen the family or add to the intrusion of the workplace into the home? Will it reduce the hours people work, or increase them by infusing work into every sphere of life,
devouring leisure-time and family-life? And how will the Internet affect the role and use of the
traditional media?”
I found this article called INTERNET AND SOCIETY:A PRELIMINARY REPORT by
Norman H. Nie and Lutz Erbring. The paragraph below is pretty much a summary with questions that they answer throughout the article
“Over the last five years, the revolution in information technology (IT) has resulted in innovations that are having increasingly visible effects on the life of the average American. These developments affect not only how people work, but where they work, how much they work, or with whom they interact face to face or electronically. Will future workers continue to share physical proximity with their colleagues, or work largely alone wedded to digital devices with occasional electronic mail or voice communication? What will these changes mean for social trust and social life beyond the family? Will the growing trend of working at home with the aid of IT help strengthen the family or add to the intrusion of the workplace into the home? Will it reduce the hours people work, or increase them by infusing work into every sphere of life,
devouring leisure-time and family-life? And how will the Internet affect the role and use of the
traditional media?”
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