I must admit I had always had this nugget in my mind that Internet adoption rates exceeded those of earlier mass communication technologies (radio, tv), but I may just be clinging to one of those cybertruths.
According to Gisle Hannemyr and his report ‘A Critical Examination of Adoption Rates‘ there appear to be no major differences between the adoption rate of the Internet and the patterns of adoption for radio and tv in the past.
Through the report he has
identified the discrepancy in adoption rates as possibly resulting from translations of actual data into carefully phrased re-statements of fact in support of a particular financial or political agenda.
Funny that!
