[Air-l] Pew Internet Report: Web use post 9-11 one year later (fwd)

[Barry Wellman]

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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:38:05 -0400
From: Tom Spooner <tspooner at pewinternet.org>
To: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Subject: Pew Internet Report: Web use post 9-11 one year later

One Year Later: September 11 and the Internet

More than two-thirds of Americans (69%) say the government should do
everything it can to keep information out of terrorists’ hands, even if that
means the public will be deprived of information it needs or wants.

Similar percentages of Americans approve of officials’ steps to remove
information from government Web sites that could be useful to terrorists.
Even people who favor wide disclosure of information online generally
support government policies to remove that information if officials argue it
could aid terrorists. For instance, 60% of those who believe the government
should post information about chemical plants and the chemicals they produce
say that material should be removed from the Internet if the government said
it could help terrorists.

Though they demonstrate a willingness to cede power to officials over what
to disclose online, a plurality of Americans believe that taking government
information off the Internet will not make a difference in battling
terrorists. In addition, citizens are sharply divided on the question of
whether the government should be able to monitor people’s email and online
activities. The division is this: 47% of Americans believe the government
should not have the right to monitor people’s Internet use and 45% say the
government should have that right. A majority of Internet users oppose
government monitoring of people’s email and Web activities.

These are among the findings in a new survey by the Pew Internet & American
Life Project taken between June 26 and July 26 of 2,501 American adults. The
results are published in a report entitled “One Year Later: September 11 and
the Internet.” It is a wide-ranging examination of what people feel
government disclosure policies should be, how Americans’ online behavior has
changed since 9/11, and how the Web itself changed as producers responded to
the crisis.

The Pew Internet Project report contains the first scholarly studies built
around analysis of hundreds of Web sites that have been cached in the
September 11 Web Archives (http://september11.archive.org/).  In all, close
to 30,000 sites were archived between September 11 and December 1 last year,
providing the unique opportunity to document what Web producers did in
response to 9/11.

A copy of the report can be viewed and downloaded at
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=69.

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