WebUse provides a number of resources for researchers interested in the impact of the Internet on human behavior.  These resources are described, with links, below.

WebUse is committed to providing high quality data without fees to people interested in how technology generally, and the Internet specifically, affects human behavior.

Currently available data range from in-depth interviews of Web users to nationally representative, large sample surveys collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, National Opinion Research Center, Pew, and others.
 

All of the data at WebUse are provided using the Web based Survey Data Analysis (SDA) software developed at the University of California, Berkeley.  SDA provides a Web based user interface that allows users to interactively analyze data by completing and submitting Web forms.  SDA is fast , statistically full-featured, and easy to learn and use.  We have created an SDA tutorial to demonstrate the basic features.

WebUse provides a comprehensive list of readings about technology and the Internet, with most entries annotated.  Hundreds of books and articles cover diverse area including Consumption Patterns, Online Communities, Economics, Policy Issues, Historical, Perspectives Politics, Human Computer Interaction, Privacy, Inequality and Digital Divide, Public Access and Usage, International Differences, Qualitative Studies, Internet Survey Analysis/Methodology, Social Capital Implications, Macro/Structure Issues, Social Networks, Multivariate Analysis, Time/Activity Displacement, Navigational Skills, Theory
 

This summer, the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland is hosting the 3rd annual graduate student workshop—or WebShop.

This conference or "WebShop" will bring together the leading Internet researchers to discuss their work, direct discussion, and shape the nature of future research on this timely topic.

At the WebShop, students will hear presentations from leading experts who study the behavioral aspects of information technology.

Students will also develop an original research project as the basis for their thesis or dissertation or other ongoing research
A Stipend and room and board are available for students on a competitive basis. Please see our application for additional information
 

The General Inquirer is a computer-assisted software program for content analyses of textual data.

The General Inquirer provides an easy to use interface where users can cut-and-past text from Web pages into the Inquirer, and then analyze those data using the "Harvard" and "Lasswell" general-purpose dictionaries as well as any dictionary categories developed by the user, for content -analysis applications to English texts.

The system, including its disambiguation routines for high-frequency English homographs, is quite efficient and can be readily applied to multimillion word files or folders of texts.
 

WebUse maintains a low traffic electronic mailing list that is used to inform subscribers to new Web page features and project events.

Subscribers can maintain their list by selecting appropriate options from the mailing list Web page.