[Air-l] research on internet adoption

[Frank Thomas]

Lee,

If you are interested in the early diffusion outside the US you might 
look at the Eurobarometer survey 47.1 from march-april 1997

Question asked
Do you have access to, or do you use ... ? (SHOW CARD - READ OUT - TICK 
IF YES)
A video 
recorder........................................................................ 
30 1,
A 
fax................................................................................... 
2,
A satellite dish to pick up satellite TV 
programmes..................................... 3,
A decoder for pay-TV programmes, such as (PAY-TV 
CHANNEL)............................... 4,
A television fitted with 
teletext....................................................... 5,
A minitel or another videotext system working without a television 
set.................. 6,
A 
computer.............................................................................. 
7,
A CD-ROM or 
CDI-reader.................................................................. 
8,
A 
modem................................................................................. 
9,
The Internet or the World Wide Web 
(M).................................................. 10,
None of these 
(SPONTANEOUS)............................................................. 
11,
DK...................................................................................... 
12,

This is the earliest Eurobarometer survey that asked for Internet access 
& use.
You can cross tabulate these questions with the standard 
socio-demography, the Inglehart values, and some other variables.

For more information about the survey, cf. 
http://www.za.uni-koeln.de/data/en/eurobarometer/questionnaires/s2936bqe.pdf
You get the survey raw data for the EU 15 from your national data archive.

Hope this helps,
Frank Thomas

Lee Rainie wrote:
> I am looking for help locating research about why people were drawn to
> the internet in various periods, starting in the early 1990s. There
> seems to be a decent amount of work focused on why firms large and small
> embraced the internet, but not nearly as many studies about individual
> users and their motives for going online in the first place. I am
> particularly interested in the role that life circumstances played (e.g.
> Did users embrace the internet first at their workplaces or schools and
> then in their private lives? Were they coaxed online by friends who
> already had access?). And I'm interested in research about the online
> applications that were particularly appealing to newbies (e.g. email,
> news, health information, e-commerce, adult content, etc.). 
>
>  
>
> Finally, I'd appreciate knowing if new users' motives for adoption
> changed over time. Were those who first hopped online in 1997 drawn
> online by different factors from those that drew earlier adopters in,
> say, 1993-1994?
>
>  
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Lee Rainie
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