The World Internet Project International Report 8 th Edition

We originally created this project in 1999 because the internet represents the most important technological development of our generation; the effects of the internet may surpass those of television and could someday rival those of the printing press. [...] World Internet Project International Report – Eighth Edition|17 The internet in the United States of America Center for the Digital Future USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism www.digitalcenter.org By Jaclyn Patterson Open access to the internet has been a part of American culture for over 20 years; by the turn of the century, a majority of Americans were already online, and today. [...] World Internet Project International Report – Eighth Edition|20 FINDINGS 1 Internet users and non-users World Internet Project International Report – Eighth Edition|21 1.1 Internet penetration in the World Internet Project countries Overall internet use With the exception of Egypt, each of the other 11 countries in the current World Internet Project Study reported that a majority of respondents ar. [...] Reasons for not going online – internet non-users (Q4 N-1) World Internet Project International Report – Eighth Edition|32 2 Politics and the internet World Internet Project International Report – Eighth Edition|33 2.1 The internet and the political process The internet plays an important role in the political process. [...] Among all WIP countries, Greece had the highest percentage of non-users who are in favor of more government regulation of the internet (68 percent), while the United States had the highest percentage of non-users opposed to more government regulation of the internet (44 percent).