Middlebury College banned it, but 46% of college students and 50% of college grads use it.
Twelve year olds point out errors in its competition, while those over 50 are among its smallest demographic — just 29% (Just! 29%!) say they’ve used it.
It’s Wikipedia, of course, and the numbers come from a recent Pew Internet Project [...]
Posted May 11, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: information behavior, pew internet project, pip, wikipedia. 13 Comments.
It turns out that the Pew Internet and American Life Project sort of keeps a blog. Here are some points from a November 2004 post by project director Lee Rainie regarding “surprising, strange, and wonderful data:”
The vast majority of most Internet users (80%) and many non-users (about 40%) expect that they will be able to [...]
Posted January 8, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: internet use, libraries, library, online behavior, patron behavior, pew internet, pew internet project, pip, search engine use, search engines, web searching. Be the first one.
