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Telecommunication policy. --- Telecommunication --- Information technology --- Digital divide. --- Divide, Digital --- GDD (Global digital divide) --- Global digital divide --- Information society --- Society and telecommunication --- Telecommunication and state --- Social aspects. --- Government policy

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Communication --- Education --- Distance education --- Electronic data interchange --- Technologies de l'information et de la communication --- Enseignement à distance --- Echange électronique d'information --- Technological innovations --- Data processing --- Informatique --- Internet in education. --- Telecommunication in education. --- Distance education. --- Internet --- Digital divide. --- Government policy. --- Social aspects. --- 025.4.036 --- Computer aided search. Online searching. Zoeken op internet --- Enseignement à distance --- Echange électronique d'information --- Digital divide --- Internet in education --- Telecommunication in education --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Internet (Computer network) in education --- Distance learning --- Open learning --- Divide, Digital --- GDD (Global digital divide) --- Global digital divide --- Information society --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Internet - Government policy. --- Internet - Social aspects.

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Drawing on nationally representative telephone surveys conducted from 1995 to 2000, James Katz and Ronald Rice offer a rich and nuanced picture of Internet use in America. Using quantitative data, as well as case studies of Web sites, they explore the impact of the Internet on society from three perspectives: access to Internet technology (the digital divide), involvement with groups and communities through the Internet (social capital), and use of the Internet for social interaction and expression (identity). To provide a more comprehensive account of Internet use, the authors draw comparisons across media and include Internet nonusers and former users in their research. The authors call their research the Syntopia Project to convey the Internet's role as one among a host of communication technologies as well as the synergy between people's online activities and their real-world lives. Their major finding is that Americans use the Internet as an extension and enhancement of their daily routines. Contrary to media sensationalism, the Internet is neither a utopia, liberating people to form a global egalitarian community, nor a dystopia-producing armies of disembodied, lonely individuals. Like any form of communication, it is as helpful or harmful as those who use it.

Internet --- Digital divide --- Telecommunication --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Social aspects --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy