Elon alumnus Lee Serafini ’02 is quoted in a April 17 New York Times story about people who prefer not to use the Internet. Serafini participated in Elon’s joint work with the Pew Internet and American Life Project, and the Times story focused on a recent Pew study related to Internet nonusers.
The Pew project found that 42 percent of American adults say they are not connected to the Internet,
and 74 percent of those people have
relatives or close friends who are connected. Twenty percent of the nonusers are what the study calls Net evaders: people living in Internet-connected homes where other relatives go online.
“Some grew disillusioned with the online world,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Project, based in Washington. “They decided it was just a time swamp, or they never found what they wanted.”
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