Hows and whys of Internet usage in Chile and the world :
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This article reveals the main results of WIP-Chile ́s first year 2003, compares them with those of the other affiliated countries and tries to evaluate the influence of internet in people’s everyday life. In contrast to other studies about the internet in Chile, WIP is a longitudinal analysis of both users and nonusers of the web, it includes provinces as well as the capital, and it is internationally comparable. The main conclusion is that the expansion of this technology is neither automatic nor inevitable, despite its potential. Factors like awareness about the web, type of access, experience, place of use, personal traits, public policies and national culture differ from country to country in a way it prevents generalizing on the rate and intensity of internet adoption around the world. Although WIP reveals some important changes in the daily life of internauts, our findings contradict comparable studies. So we must be especially careful when interpreting different data and methodologies. In any case, it seemed that more than replacing offline activities, Internet seems to deepen and refine them.
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