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Obama's Online Opportunities
Publication Date: December 2008
Publisher(s): Pew Internet & American Life Project
Author(s): John B. Horrigan
Funder(s): Pew Charitable Trusts
Funder(s): Pew Charitable Trusts
Special Collection: Presidential Advisory
Topic: Media, telecommunications, and information (Electronic data processing, transmission, and retrieval)
Science and technology (Technology and technology policy)
Keywords: Internet; Technology policy; Presidential transition
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
There is no shortage of suggestions to the incoming Obama administration about what to do about communications policy in the United States. The body of research from the Pew Internet Project, dating to 2000, indicates that online Americans might have one more suggestion: Make sure the internet remains a place where users define what it means to be digitally connected.