Welcome to the first UCLA Internet Report, “Surveying the Digital Future.” This project – in planning for four years and now the result of more than nine months of field research, data gathering, and analysis – was created to serve as a comprehensive, year-to-year examination of the impact of the Internet. Our goal is to explore how the Internet influences social, political, cultural, and economic behavior and ideas, as measured by the behavior, attitudes, values, and perceptions of both Internet users and non-users. We believe that the UCLA study and its partner projects around the world will create a benchmark of the global effects of the.
