The Center for the Digital Future (USC Annenberg School) has been conducting surveys for six years in an attempt to track the impact of the Internet on society. The 2007 report is now available. Unfortunately, the report costs several hundred dollars. A brief summary is available online, but a little more detail is available from some bloggers (e.g., Andy Carvin).
It would really be unfair for me to summarize someone else’s summary so I refer you to learning.now (the Carvin blog) for greater detail. The one finding I will mention concerns the proportion of Internet users who produce content. Posting photos to the web represents the category of greatest use (about 24%). This makes sense to me – posting pictures requires much less effort than writing. About 13% claim they have a personal web page and 7% have a blog. Andy does not mention an age break down so I can’t say if data on the “authoring” of individuals of K-12 age are available.
