So the Net is now coming into its own. It's shaking up traditional media, especially television, less so newspapers, books and magazines, writes Julian Thomas.

This report demonstrates a rise in the migration from television to online viewing for primetime programming in the US. New data from recent months show online television viewers are using the web not just as fill-in or catch-up, but as TV replacement. This study of online television viewers' behavior tracked online and subsequent or previous...

In order to examine how the social benefits of internet access and use can be understood and harnessed in Australia, this paper explores the implications of adding two concepts to policy deliberations: social inclusion and social capital. Digital divide policies have been historically rooted within the information society / knowledge economy credo and as such...

Chaired by barrister, author and former journalist, David Solomon, the panel makes 141 recommendations that are "not merely an upgrade of the legislation, but a new model... a radically different but more effective legislative architecture for FOI". Government information should be released ?routinely and proactively? without the need for individual requests. A Right to Information...

This report explores the causal relationship between computer ownership and high school graduation and other educational outcomes. Teenagers who have access to home computers are 6 to 8 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school than teenagers who do not have home computers after controlling for individual, parental, and family characteristics. Although computers...