Study: ‘Internet Users Are a Bunch of Ideological Jack Kerouacs’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.21.10 | 9:33 AM ET
Those are the words of David Brooks, invoking one of our travel heroes in characterizing a study about Internet usage by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Brooks continues about internet users:
They’re not burrowing down into comforting nests. They’re cruising far and wide looking for adventure, information, combat and arousal. This does not mean they are not polarized. Looking at a site says nothing about how you process it or the character of attention you bring to it. It could be people spend a lot of time at their home sites and then go off on forays looking for things to hate. But it probably does mean they are not insecure and they are not sheltered.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
