Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Jul 23, 2007; 4:55am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Despite-the-Web-Americans-Remain-Woefully-Ill-Informed-tp524232p524266.html

steve smith wrote:
> 2) The internet, in my opinion, is still mainly a reference source...  
> Somewhere between a dictionary or encyclopedia and a newspaper or
> magazine subscription.
>
> If people aren't interested in these kinds of facts, they won't look
> them up and they won't "subscribe" (e-mail lists, blogs, podcasts,
> news/information web sites) to sources that provide them.  
With more kinds of appealing facts accessible (ranging from gossip blogs
to online academic journals),  and assuming fixed available attention by
individuals, then we should expect per-individual knowledge of any
particular topic to be reduced...