The Pew Internet project just released some stats also. /Caroline ------
Delivered-To: haythorn@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:12:13 -0400 From: Amanda Lenhart <alenhart@pewinternet.org> Subject: Pew Internet Report on American's Use of the Net on Sept 11-12 X-Mime-Type-Killed: text/html X-Unsubscribe: send a blank message to pewinternet-off@pewinternet.org To: haythorn@uiuc.edu Sender: bounce-pewinternet=haythorn=uiuc.edu@zip.mail-list.com
How Americans Used the Internet After the Terror Attack WASHINGTON, DC-- Americans, including Internet users, relied mostly on TV for their news and the phone primarily for their communication needs in the days following the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon. But for many online Americans, the Internet played a useful supplemental role as a communications tool through their use of email and instant messaging and as a news source. In addition, many Internet users were highly active in their communities in responding to the attacks.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a report titled "How Americans Used the Internet After the Terror Attack," detailing how Americans did and did not use various forms of technology on Sept 11 and 12, 2001.
In the two days after the terror attack, three quarters of all Americans (74%) reached out to loved ones and friends by the phone or by the Internet. Some 82% of Internet users used the phone or email to make contact with people they care about in the first 48 hours after the attacks.
For more details, please visit http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=45 for the full text of the report.
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Message: 2 From: "Ryan J. Burns" <rburns1@tulane.edu> To: <Air-l@aoir.org> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:14:23 -0500 Subject: [Air-l] Internet traffic on Sept. 11 Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Has anyone seen statistics on Internet traffic on Sept. 11 and 12? If so, where? I noticed that the major news websites were really "slow" on Sept. 11. I also heard the CEO of Earthlink on NPR talk about huge spikes in traffic to his member sites. He also mentioned that e-mail use was down, and the use of synchronous chat was up. I'm teaching a CMC class and would love to talk about it in class.
Ryan J. Burns, Ph.D. rburns1@tulane.edu Visiting Instructor of Media Studies Department of Communication Tulane University
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---------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Coordinator, Undergraduate Minor in Information Technology Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820 phone: 217-244-7453 fax: 217-244-3302 Faculty home page: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/people/faculty/haythorn.html Personal home page: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/