usagewatch.org
Observing the evolution of technology usage
Search results for "digital history" (13)
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The democratisation of intimacy
Workplace, school, battlefield, foreign country, were until recently all settings in which people were removed for short or long periods of time from their closest ties, family or friends. Clocking in, meant leaving behind the family and ...
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The Author
Stefana Broadbent ...
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The Project
Usagewatch was created in 2005 by Francesco Cara to track the evolution of user practices with new digital media. Stefana Broadbent has since taken it on and is transforming it into a more narrative and analytic tool. The idea is to combine t...
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Internet Adoption in South-East Asia - Thailand 1.0
In Thailand, Internet users are about 10% of the total population. They are concentrated in Bangkok and other urban areas. Expensive hardware, low computer literacy, high telecommunications and Inte...
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How many people publish, read or contribute to blogs? 2.0
Yesterday, while I was updating a previous post on blog usages as new results had been published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, I recalled an International Herald Tribune article I came across at the end of last year: ...
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A day in the life of a member of Cyworld
Jennifer, who lives and studies abroad, narrates her experience of Cyworld in a beautiful Ohmynews article. At ...
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On the assessment of digital literacy
The design of tests such as the "Information and Communications Technology literacy assessment" - a subject developed by Tom Zeller Jr in the NYT article dated 17-01-05 ...
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How people used the Internet in 1997
I wrote this article for a conference ESOMAR in 1997 based on a study we did in 1996 and 1997. In 1997, we interviewed 60 people in France and Italy, from various social and professional backgrounds who were all regular computer use...
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Penetration of Social Networking Sites in 2009
LONDON, U.K., July 2, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of the social networking category in Russia, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement servic...
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A bus driver
There are more and more rules being set to limit the use of cell phones by drivers of public transport. This video spurred Metro an american transport company...
