I am looking for help locating research about why people were drawn to the internet in various periods, starting in the early 1990s. There seems to be a decent amount of work focused on why firms large and small embraced the internet, but not nearly as many studies about individual users and their motives for going online in the first place. I am particularly interested in the role that life circumstances played (e.g. Did users embrace the internet first at their workplaces or schools and then in their private lives? Were they coaxed online by friends who already had access?). And I'm interested in research about the online applications that were particularly appealing to newbies (e.g. email, news, health information, e-commerce, adult content, etc.). Finally, I'd appreciate knowing if new users' motives for adoption changed over time. Were those who first hopped online in 1997 drawn online by different factors from those that drew earlier adopters in, say, 1993-1994? Thanks very much, Lee Rainie ********** Director Pew Internet & American Life Project 1615 L Street NW - Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20036 202-419-4510 http://www.pewinternet.org