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- Contact Person:
- Jeffrey Cole
- Website:
- Role(s):
- Research
- Topic(s) of work:
- Globalization, Internet
- Created:
- 2000
Description
The World Internet Project originated at the UCLA Center for
Communication Policy (now the USC Annenberg School Center for the
Digital Future) and was founded with the NTU School of Communication
Studies in Singapore and the Osservatorio Internet Italia at Bocconi
University in Milan, Italy. From the beginning it was recognized that
the increasing influence of digital technology and the Internet is a
cross-national phenomenon. It has always been the project’s intent to
expand to include all the regions of the world and within five years to
include 25 or more countries.
The originators of this project believe that the Internet (in whatever
distribution system: PC, television, wireless or some yet to be
developed system) will transform our social, political and economic
lives. We further believe that the influence and importance of the
Internet will dwarf that of the most important cultural influence of
the past 50 years: television. Potentially the Internet represents
change on the order of the industrial revolution or the printing press.
Believing this, our Internet Project is designed to get in on the
ground floor of that change and to watch and document what happens as
households and nations acquire and use the Internet.
Projects
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Canada Internet Project (CIP)
Principal Investigators: Charles Zamaria, Andre Caron
Members (Institutions)
- Annenberg School for Communication, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Oxford Internet Institute (OII), Oxford OX1 3JS, United Kingdom
- Foundation for Latin American Economic Research (Fundación de Investigaciones Económicas Latinoamericanas, FIEL) , Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Institute for Social Research, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
- School of Communications , Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Center for Social Development, Beijing, China
- Faculty of Social Studies, Brno, Czech Republic
- Baltic Internet Research Center, Talinn, Estonia
- Center for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), Paris, France
- Deutsches Digital Institut, Berlin, Germany
- Department of English and Communication, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- TARKI Social Research Centre Social Science Databank, Hungary
- Tezpur University, Napaam, Sonitpur, Assam, India
- Faculty of Social Science and Economics, Iran (Islamic Republic Of)
- Bezeq International Research Center, Herzliya, Israel
- World Internet Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
- Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC), Singapore
- Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology), Lisbon, Portugal
- Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication, Aukland, New Zealand
Members (People)
- Yair Amichai-Hamburger, Bezeq International Research Center, Sammy Ofer School of Communication, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel
- Susan Bastani, Faculty of Social Science and Economics, University of Alzahra, Iran (Islamic Republic Of)
- Gustavo Cardoso
- Jeffrey Cole, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Zoltán Fábián, TARKI Social Research Centre Social Science Databank, Hungary
- Sergio Godoy Etcheverry, School of Communications , Universidad Catolica (UC) , Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Guo Liang, Center for Social Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
- Phillipa Smith, Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication, Faculty of Applied Humanities, Auckland University of Technology , Aukland, New Zealand
- Juan José Valdivieso, Centro de Investigación de las Telecomunicaciones de Colombia (CINTEL), Bogota, Colombia
- Thierry Vedel, Center for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), Sciences Polytechnic, Paris, France
- Jonathan J. H. Zhu, Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong