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Shifting Trends Among Adults About Benefits, Consequences of Children Going Online |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: The 2008 report of the Digital Future Project has identified several sobering trends in views about going online -- in particular in adults' opinions about Internet use by children. - The percentage of adults who said that the children in their households spend too much time using the Internet reached 25 percent of respondents -- an increase for the third year in a row and the highest percentage yet reported in the seven years of Digital Future Project studies. The findings about adult views of children's online behavior and more than 100 other issues are published by the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, the comprehensive annual examination conducted since 2000 on the impact of online technology on America. The Digital Future Project found that the Internet is perceived by users to be a more important source of information for them -- this over all other principal media, including television, radio, newspapers, and books. The Digital Future Project found profound social impact produced by growing participation in online communities. More than half of online community members (54 percent) log into their community at least once a day, and 71 percent of members said their community is very important or extremely important to them. For example, almost two-thirds of users (64 percent) agree that the Internet has become important for political campaigns, and more than half of users age 16 or older (55 percent) said that using the Internet allows people to better understand politics.
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