Digital Future Project 2010

Internet users deal with an unprecedented level of online connections and communication beyond basic e-mail that did not exist a decade ago: social networking sites, online video, PDAs, texting, IM, e-readers, portable video devices, and most recently the iPad and competing devices to come. Through this technology, users must rely on the Internet more than ever before, yet at the same time this survey is identifying growing concern about reliability of the technology and user trust in it. Have we reached the point at which users are going into online overload? See the July 23, 2010 press release and highlights of the Digital Future Project 2010 at the Center for the Digital Future, USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.