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The UCLA Internet Report: "Surveying the Digital Future" [.pdf] http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/newsite/pages/internet-report.asp Released on October 25 by the UCLA Center for Communication Policy, this new report challenges the conventional wisdom that the Net creates social isolation. The 53-page report is the product of "the first comprehensive study ever conducted of the sweeping changes produced by the Internet," created to "explore how computers, information technology and their users are shaping and changing society." In contrast to what some journalists and politicians have claimed, the vast majority of respondents to the study claimed that online activities such as email, chat rooms, and surfing have made a positive impact, if a modest one, on their ability to make friends and communicate with their family. The report itself offers lots of interesting information for anyone who uses or studies the Net. This includes the top ten Internet activities, who uses the internet, views about the Internet, email use, children and the Internet, online shopping, work and the Internet, and online contact and friendships. This is a very important study, and, as far as publications of this type go, not a bad read. [MD] From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ janet paterson 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ EMAIL: [log in to unmask] SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada