เอาเป็นว่า สังคมของเราก็คือ กลุ่มพวกฉัน ที่มาอยู่ร่วมกันในพื้นที่ Internet
ถาม: พวกฉันทั้งมวล ยอมใช้อะไร ๆ ร่วมกันใน Internet อย่างมีขอบเขตนะหรือ ?
เดี๋ยวก่อน พื้นที่ “ความเป็นพวกฉัน” ที่ว่านี้ มีขอบเขต กำหนดวัดได้หรือไม่?

ตอบ: พื้นที่ “ความเป็นพวกฉัน” เป็นอยู่ร่วมกันใน Internet ไม่ใช่พื้นที่ที่มีคุณสมบัติกำหนดขอบเขตแบบ กว้าง ยาว หนา/ลึก ไม่ใช่อย่างนั้น และอีกอย่าง พื้นที่ “ความเป็นพวกฉัน” เป็นอยู่ร่วมกันใน Internet ไม่ใช่พื้นที่ที่มีคุณสมบัติกำหนดให้พวกฉันต้องการเผชิญหน้ากัน แบบ “ตัวตน คนเป็น ๆ “ ไม่ใช่อย่างนั้น

ถาม: พวกฉันใน Internet มารวมกันอยู่ โดยไม่มีขอบเขตทางกายภาพหรือทางภูมิศาสตร์ ภูมิวัฒนธรรม ก็ว่ากันไป อย่างนั้นหรือ?

ถาม: แล้วจะเรียกว่า “การสื่อสารใน Internet เป็น สังคม หรือว่าเป็นชุมชน ได้อย่างไร?”

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Pew Reports: Online Communities: Networks that nurture long-distance relationships and local ties
10/31/2001 | Report | John Horrigan

Some 84% of Internet users have at one time or another contacted an online group. Tens of millions of Americans have joined communities after discovering them online. And many are using the Internet to join and participate in longstanding, traditional groups such as professional and trade associations. Furthermore, many Americans are using the Internet to intensify their connection to their local community

Skype and glaciers


Friday, October 14, 2005 | PIP Comment

For even those of us who spend nearly all day every day online, the internet will still serve up a gee-whiz moment once in a while. I had one last week.

It was breakfast time. I was multi-tasking the usual way: making coffee, looking at the morning papers, listening to the radio, checking my email, and wondering where in the world were my children. One, I knew, was heading west from Bangalore to San Francisco.

Then the computer rang. Or more precisely, Skype was announcing an incoming call. My mom in Florida? My sister in Rome? No. It was my son, at 35,000 feet above Greenland. There was a wireless connection on the plane.

The encounter was stunning. We had one of those inane conversations the older ones among us remember from the early days of “long distance” by telephone, when all the kids would line up in the dining room on a Sunday morning for a chance to say hello to the grandparents, who lived 500 or 2500 miles away. “Be quick; it’s long distance!” the parents would warn. Only, this time, the expense wasn't the issue. It was our amazement that our computers could connect with each other under such circumstances.

“Hi! How are you! I can’t believe this! How can you be calling – for free-- over the internet, up in the stratosphere!” But that was the beginning, and it only got better.

My son was describing his clear view of the glaciers below. “Wait!” he said, “I’ll send you photos!” And a few minutes later, digital photos transferred to a laptop and sent over the internet, they arrived. In almost real-time, I could see the very glaciers he was seeing out his airplane window 35,000 feet below. They were stunning and you can see them by clicking on the PowerPoint here.

We tried all the gadgetry our computers could muster: IM over GoogleTalk, IM with Skype, Skype by voice, just to see what would work. We settled on IMs, as the voice connections became scratchy and I received a lot of interference from the baby in seat 35H. It was a wonderful experience.

Do you – even the jaded ones among you – have a gee-whiz moment to share? Send it to us at:

webmaster at pewinternet.org

Skype and glaciers / Posted by Deborah Fallows at 15:38 PM

Adult Content Online


Imagine: The phone rings. You agree to answer a few questions from a polling firm about your internet use. About twenty questions into the survey, the person on the phone asks, “Do you ever visit an adult web site?” and then “Do you ever download or share adult content online?” You ponder your answer – perhaps calculating quickly what the “right” and socially acceptable answer should be – and move on to the next part of the survey, which is introduced by the questioner with the phrase, “On a slightly different topic…”

The Pew Internet Project has asked the adult web site question in five different surveys over the last five years, yielding between 13%-15% of internet users who say yes. When we talk to other researchers and internet experts about these findings, very few think that these figures accurately reflect the number of American adults who have accessed porn online.

Though we publish these findings in our "Internet Activities" chart, we have not done any elaborate analysis or reports on them. We did, however, explore the implications of porn use in our study on spyware. In the survey undergirding that report, we asked questions about sharing and downloading files, including adult content, because we had heard that unwanted software often sneaks onto a user’s computer via those games, screensavers, and video files they have downloaded. Four percent of internet users said they download or share adult content online.

Porn is widely credited with fueling technology adoption, such as the popularity of home VCRs. "Adult" search terms and content are so popular online that search engines and traffic measurement companies reportedly have to cordon it off in order to accurately measure all other content (kind of like how the best-seller book lists cordoned off the Harry Potter series). Mobile phone companies in Britain are allowing racy videos to be delivered to age-verified customers – providing a test case for that new feature of wireless technology.

But data about this subset of internet users is difficult to find. For example, in our survey of 1,336 internet users age 18+, there were only 169 people who answered yes to either question about adult content online. The margin of error is plus or minus 9 percentage points, but we thought we would share the data that we have on this quite savvy group of internet users.

For shorthand purposes, anyone who answered yes to either the adult web site or share adult content questions is termed an “adult-content internet user.”

Four-fifths of adult-content internet users in our sample are men and one-fifth are women. By comparison, half of all internet users are men, half are women.

Two-thirds of adult-content internet users in our sample are between 18 and 40 years old. By comparison, about half of all internet users are age 18-40.

Adult-content internet users in our sample are more likely than other internet users to have a high-speed internet connection at home (64% vs. 52%).

Adult-content internet users in our sample are more likely than other internet users to go online several times a day at home (39% vs. 24%) and/or at work (43% vs. 34%).

Adult-content internet users in our sample are more likely to know about tech terms than other users, except for the concept of “spam” which is almost universally understood (and despised).

Adult-content internet users in our sample are more likely than other users to download and share music and video files, download computer programs, download screensavers, download and play online games, and create and read blogs. They are no more or less likely than other users to shop online.

Adult-content internet users in our sample are more likely to report having had spyware or adware on their computer, along with those who download computer programs, play online games, and other activities.

And, finally, adult-content internet users in our sample are more likely than other users to say they have stopped visiting certain web sites in order to avoid unwanted software (63% vs. 46%).

Adult Content Online / Thursday, August 18, 2005 | Posted by Susannah Fox at 10:54 AM

Stories about the impact of the internet
Posted by Lee Rainie at 15:44 PM |Sunday, March 27, 2005


We invite people who visit our web site to take our survey and tell us stories about how their internet use has affected them.

One of the most interesting insights we have gotten in the nearly 2,000 postings to our site came last week from a middle aged man who wrote:

I found 'Experience.'
“[I have] too many anecdotes to write here about my coming into contact [online] with other individuals whose lives were transformed by LCEs (Life Changing Experiences) and/or disease. My views can be encapsulated like this: ‘I came to the Internet to look for Information, instead I had found "Experience."’”

I have started posting some of the more interesting stories that have come our way, with the permission of the authors. Here are some of the stories that have been submitted in recent weeks:

An adoptee's family union
"About three weeks ago I was able to contact my birth sister. I am a person who was adopted and although I knew that I have two birth sisters, a friend took it upon herself to volunteer to be an intermediary and to contact one sister who has a website. My sister and I have been happily chatting by e-mail since she agreed to be in touch, and for me this is something that I've hoped for for about twenty-five years. I am still amazed that after all this time we've finally found one another... and I'm thrilled at the way it seems to be working out!"

[Added material to the adoptee's story at 6:05 AM 3/28/05:
Many adoptees are using the internet to help locate birth relatives. Alaska and Kansas have pretty much always allowed adults to receive a copy of an unamended birth certificate with all the true names and dates in place, but within the past few years Oregon, Alabama, and most recently New Hampshire have changed their laws to allow this. Still, adoptees who were born in the other forty-five states cannot access this basic information about themselves at all. The internet has been a great help to all of us in many ways as we put together a bit of this and a bit of that to solve the puzzle of our identity... as well as to talk with others who are searching and some wonderful folks who will do research locally for those of us who have moved away from our birth state.]

An amazing picture
"My son and his wife told me they were having a baby by sending a jpg of the sonogram. The subject line read: family photo. The message said: We think you'll really like this recent family photo."

Making connections -- By Sam Post
"We were contacted by my grandfather's brother's grandchildren (our cousins). The two brothers (grandfathers) had immigrated from Eastern Europe separately at the turn of the century. They both died years ago, but they were not in touch with each other in this country, and the families had never connected. The cousins in Ohio had the same last name as our family and found my mother on the internet. Here in North Carolina, we had a large Thanksgiving gathering with cousins we had never met from Ohio and California. They are just as crazy as we are. I've had many other great reunions (including other cousins, in Russia; and old roommates, classmates, etc.), but meeting the cousins mentioned above is the most 'amazing.'"

Checking up on an ex
"I found out that my ex-boyfriend had apparently not done well in law school, since he's now selling cars."

Old flame
"This isn't my story, per se, but it has had a big impact on my life. Eighteen months ago my father died, fairly quickly from liver cancer. He and my mother had been married, very happily, for 55 years. My mother was very sad, and to make matters worse, lonely. In September my mother went to some 'high-school reunion' website, and got in touch with some of her old friends, including a guy she knew in High School. Last month they got married. They are both 78. My mother who had lived in Kansas for the last 55 years, is now living, very happily, in Maryland. Rather amazing, and, quite literally, all due to the internet."

Stories of online life
Posted by Lee Rainie at 14:42 PM |
Sunday, February 6, 2005 |

On the bottom left of our home page //www.pewinternet.org we invite visitors to our site to take an online version of our core survey about internet use. More than 3,500 people have done so. At the end of the survey, we ask respondents to tell us the most important or compelling thing that has happened to them online.

Many talk about finding romance, or reconnecting with long lost friends or family members, or how they found health information that has changed their lives, or how they have probed their ancestry to unexpected depths.

From time to time, I will share some of their stories in my commentary postings. Here are some that caught my eye from those who completed the survey in January:

Story 1: Googling myself
“When I googled myself recently I found that an old friend of mine was writing a column for a newspaper in a city where I no longer live, and had dedicated a column to me. I was able to email him directly from the website and we got back in touch after many years of not really knowing where each other were. “

Story 2: Nana and the webcam
“The most amazing thing happened about a week ago. My daughter lives in another state and we have webcams and chat online often (several times a week sometimes two or more times a day). The amazing thing is my granddaughter - she is not quite two years old but she is very much into chatting with Nana on the computer. We sing, play games (peek a boo), laugh and talk. A couple of weeks ago as we played she asked me to pick her up. I was surprised ... she lifted her little arms toward the screen and said "up Nana ... up". My daughter tells me that if she says "let's call Nana" my granddaughter automatically heads for their computer room.”

Story 3: A precious digital record
“The week after my 16 year old daughter died in a car accident, I was passing her bedroom door and heard her computer do that "blee-de-bleep" sound that IM makes when you get an incoming message. I went [to her computer and] … found she had downloaded the logfiles of IM conversations she had had with friends onto our computer. I found out she had been keeping an diary file which indicated that she had been having sex but also that her emotional life was rich, stable, and caring.

“In this file, she talked about how good her relationship was with me, her mom, and other parents. What a gift to find this--or have her show me it was there. It confirmed her love for us and eased my pain. About a month later I googled her name (which is fairly unusual) and found all sorts of blogs, postings, webpages, comments, and junk online that she had posted for years. People had posted comments about the accident and had posted poetry to her. Too young to publish an autobiography, bits of her live on, online.”

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