Hi In my research into how families use the internet, I have one user who sends/receives emails frequently throughout the day but doesn't know how to search on the web. She said she'd never had any reason to! (There is earlier feminist research on women feeling the web isn't for them of course, can't remember refs off the top of my head but maybe Dale Spender, Nattering on the Net was one of them.) I visited this woman two years later and found she'd ceased internet use altogether. I guess it doesn't work for everyone. Sue 2. Internet information sources (Marj Kibby)
Marj.Kibby@newcastle.edu.au 05/14/2003 6:34:05 PM >>> As a member of many academic and hobby mailing lists I'm regularly struck by requests to the list for information that could have been uncovered by a web search.
Today for example there was an 'urgent' request on a list for info on Terrence Malick's use of Walt Whitman, from a Cultural Studies professor. A web search on the two names brought up a number of good articles. Anyone know whether this is widespread, or have any explanation why Internet users would email others for information rather than search the web? Cheers, Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby@newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l --__--__--