March 26, 2009

New Report Published by Pew Internet & American Life

The Pew Internet & American Life Project recently released a new report by John Horrigan which attempts to evaluate and categorize how people are using mobile technology and how comfortable they are with this technology. Horrigan, author of the 2007 Pew report A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users came up with ten different technology personalities to describe his findings.

1. Digital Collaborators
2. Ambivalent Networkers
3. Media Movers
4. Roving Nodes
5. Mobile Newbies
6. Desktop Veterans
7. Drifting Surfers
8. Information Encumbered
9. Tech Indifferent
10. Off the Net

Read the full report here or take a quiz and see how you fit in this continuum.

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