Pew Survey Finds Almost Half of Net Users Creating Content

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: hal () halstucker com
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:27:20 
To:dave () farber net
Subject: Pew Survey Finds Almost Half of Net Users Creating Content

Dear Prof. Farber:

Thought this might be of interest to IP.  A survey from the 
Pew Internet and American Life project has found that almost 
half of all American Internet users have created and 
uploaded content of one sort or another to the Web.

"In a national phone survey between March 12 and May 20, 
2003, the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 
more than 53 million American adults have used the Internet 
to publish their thoughts, respond to others, post pictures, 
share files and otherwise contribute to the explosion of 
content available online. Some 44% of the nation’s adult 
Internet users (those 18 and over) have done at least one of 
the following:

􀂄 21% of Internet users say they have posted photographs to 
Web sites.
􀂄 17% have posted written material on Web sites.
􀂄 13% maintain their own Web sites.
􀂄 10% have posted comments to an online newsgroup. A small 
fraction of them have posted files to a newsgroup such as 
video, audio, or photo files.
􀂄 8% have contributed material to Web sites run by their 
businesses.
􀂄 7% have contributed material to Web sites run by 
organizations to which they belong such as church or 
professional groups.
􀂄 7% have Web cams running on their computers that allow 
other Internet users to see live pictures of them and their 
surroundings.
􀂄 6% have posted artwork on Web sites.
􀂄 5% have contributed audio files to Web sites.
􀂄 4% have contributed material to Web sites created for 
their families.
􀂄 3% have contributed video files to Web sites."

The full report is available in PDF format at:

http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_Content_Creation_
Report.pdf

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