You should check the work of Pew Internet. http://www.pewinternet.org/ Particularly interesting here is there studies of "Refusniks" and why some people remain isolated or offline. While clearly there are refuseniks - I think the latest Pew Internet work finds that those groups are becoming increasingly demographically isolated and over time are vanishing. There are for example elder populations which have not gotten online - but as generations move demographically, this is becoming a smaller factor. You can also find some statistical data aggregated on Cybertelecom. This page has a subcategory re refuseniks http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm --- John Veitch <jsveitch@ate.co.nz> wrote:
Alexis Turner wrote:
This response is indicative of something I have been thinking about a lot lately, which can basically be summed up by asking "WHY do we expect people to use the web to the extent to which we, web professionals and scholars, do?" and "WHY are we so dumbfounded when they don't?" In particular, I have really begun to question my own horrified, but, ultimately, knee jerk reaction to discovering that someone does not "engage," "participate," or "produce" things on the web. After all, I don't grow my own food, fix my own car, or build my own calculators, so why should I expect others to learn HTML, join a list, or defrag their own harddrive?
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