{"id":269,"date":"2008-07-23T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2008-07-23T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:51:44","slug":"internet-adoption-rates-have-they-exceeded-that-of-earlier-mass-communication-techno%c2%adlogies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/internet-adoption-rates-have-they-exceeded-that-of-earlier-mass-communication-techno%c2%adlogies\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet adoption rates have they exceeded that of earlier mass communication techno\u00adlogies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit I had always had this nugget in my mind that Internet adoption rates exceeded those of earlier mass communication techno\u00adlogies (radio, tv), but I may just be clinging to one of those cybertruths.<br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/heim.ifi.uio.no\/~gisle\/blog\/wordpress\/\">Gisle Hannemyr<\/a>  and his report &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/hannemyr.com\/essay\/diff.html\">A Critical Examination of Adoption Rates<\/a>&#8216; 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.<br \/>\nThrough the report he has<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>identified the discrepancy in adoption rates as possibly resulting from trans\u00adlations of actual data into carefully phrased re-statements of fact in support of a particular financial or political agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny that!<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bestproductions.com\/jetsterswebsite\/images\/cybertruth.jpg\" alt=\"Honesty on the Internet http:\/\/www.bestproductions.com\/jetsterswebsite\/images\/cybertruth.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit I had always had this nugget in my mind that Internet adoption rates exceeded those of earlier mass communication techno\u00adlogies (radio, tv), but I may just be clinging to one of those cybertruths. According to Gisle Hannemyr and his report &#8216;A Critical Examination of Adoption Rates&#8216; there appear to be no major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7O9Cj-4l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}