Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
Surfing up for women, but Web gaps remain
12/29/2005 | 
Coverage
Howard Wolinsky, Chicago Sun-Times
'"Once the playground for young techie guys, the Internet in recent years has been dominated by women as the overall gender gap closed, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
But Pew's analysis shows the emergence of new gender gaps, where young women, black women and older men are more likely to be online than their opposite sex peers.
Deborah Fallows, senior research fellow at Pew and author of the study, told the Chicago Sun-Times, "There has been a 'feminization' [of the Net] in the sense that women took a different fork in the Internet road from men. Men use and appreciate the Internet more for the experiences it offers -- to do things -- and women use it and appreciate it more for the human connections they build."
Steve Jones, an Internet researcher and communication professor based at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said the report demonstrates that "Net users are not some kind of monolithic 'them' and the Internet is not just a giant mass medium. The Internet is a multi-medium, which men and women use differently."
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