[Air-l] more net => more offline

[Nancy Baym]

Barry Wellman writes:

>PS: Nancy Baym discussed the Copher finding, "the more (online), the more
>offline"  in Wellman-Haythornthwaite's Internet in Everyday Life. same
>finding appears in Quan, et al and Boase, Chen & Wellman, altho we didn't
>select articles on that basis. Pew studies find the same thing.
>
>As does Castells, et al in Catalonia.
>
>Bernie Hogan finds a softer version: Internet use doesn't seem to lower
>other forms of communication (ASA conf, last August).
>I am starting to think this is a reliable finding, at least in the soft
>version.

My colleagues and I also report the same finding in a college student 
sample (more use of internet is correlated with more f2f and 
telephone communication) in an article to be published in New Media 
and Society later this year.

Nancy