*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** I am looking for numbers. Scientific surveys, focus group, usability studies, Internet traffic statistics, log file analysis etc. - data that helps give a quantifiable sense of what people say they want with the Internet and politics/government/media as well as what people actually do online in those areas. In some sense I yearn for broad application of the Internet development lessons across the "democracy online" community, so good studies from other online sectors are useful as well. For example, I would like to know what the top ten documents/resources are accessed online from the White House, Congress, State Legislatures, Governors, from non-partisan voter information sites, online advocacy sites, political parties, etc.. What is most popular and how can we make that content more accessible/usable? I want real numbers. :-) So what "public" (or private) studies are emerging from academic, research, and practitioner circles anywhere in the world? E-mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are some of the resources I know about (more comments below): 1. Internet Election News Audience Seeks Convenience, Familiar Names: Youth Vote Influenced By Online Information - From the Pew Research Center for People and the Press and the Pew Internet & American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=27 2. Post-Election 2000 Survey on Internet Use for Civics and Politics from the Democracy Online Project http://democracyonline.org/databank/dec2000survey.shtml http://democracyonline.org/ - for press release 3. Congressional Candidate Web Sites in Campaign 2000 from NetElection.Org http://netelection.org/conference/ 4. E-Government: The Next American Revolution - Hart-Teeter Poll Data - From Center for Excellence in Government http://www.excelgov.org/techcon/egovex/index.htm 5. Internet Activities Charts - From Pew Internet & American Life http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/index.asp 6. Radio in Today's News Media Mix - From the Radio Television News Directors Foundation http://www.rtndf.org/radio/mix/ 7. Online news eyetracking research.- Stanford-Poynter Project http://www.poynter.org/eyetrack2000/index.htm 8. Lessons Learned - Usability.Gov http://www.usability.gov/lessons/learned.html 9. And lots of various reports on site traffic and the time people spend online: http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/traffic_patterns http://www.netvalue.com/corp/presse/index.htm http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/ It would be great if we could compare what people say they want and what they really use online. I'd like to get a sense of a typical citizen's (as well as the political junkie and people in between) interest in e-democracy and e-government content - how they find it, how long they spend with it, and what they think of it. What they would like to see improved. Ultimately, I'd like to see use be able to set numeric goals for e-government, e-democracy, e-media, e-etc. so that we can be both better serve the public and be held accountable to reasonable measurements and expectations. Don't forget to share the reports (with numbers) that you know about: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Steven Clift Democracies Online http://www.e-democracy.org ------- End of forwarded message ------- ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
