The Internet and Emergency Preparedness
Half of Americans fear terrorists might mount successful cyber-attacks against key American utilities and businesses.
Half of Americans fear terrorists might mount successful cyber-attacks against key American utilities and businesses.
In the early days of the war with Iraq, 77% of online Americans used the Internet in some connection with the war. They went online to get information about the war, to learn and share differing opinions about the conflict, to send and receive emails about events, to express their views and to offer prayers.
Email has become an increasingly popular and potent tool for political communication in America.
More Americans used the Internet to get campaign information in 2002 than during the last midterm election four years ago.
This speech covers our findings related to how people used the Internet just after the 9/11 terror attacks and our follow-up survey.
This report contains the first scholarly studies built around analysis of hundreds of Web sites that have been cached in the September 11 Web Archives, and makes clear that no event in the Web era has so dominated so many Web sites in such a short, intense period of time.
The speech covers our basic findings about how people used the Internet immediately after 9/11.
Some Americans' Internet experiences are beginning to be affected by the dot-com meltdown, but the vast majority of them are making quick adjustments to get the Web content and services they like without paying extra money
Most Americans attribute dot-com difficulties to overeager investors looking for quick payoffs and to the poor business plans of dot-com entrepreneurs.
As the audience for online campaign news has expanded—increasing fourfold over the past four years—it has gone more mainstream in its preferences and pursuits.