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Founded in 1993, the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future was one of the earliest research organizations to explore the views and behavior of Internet users and non-users in the United States, and was the first to develop an annual longitudinal panel study of these issues — the Digital Future Project report — represent the longest continuing study of its kind.
Since 2000, working with partner countries worldwide, the Center has conducted the world's largest and longest-running longitudinal study on Internet use and digital adoption — the World Internet Project. It operates through the Center in collaboration with 39 partner countries. Studies explore the evolution of communication technology through findings on more than 80 subject areas in broad categories that include:
- Internet users and non-users
- Information-seeking online
- Access to online services
- Politics and the Internet
- Online media use
- Media reliability and importance
- User-generated content and social media
- Online entertainment
- Online purchasing
- Personal privacy
- Online communication
- Credit card security
- Offline media use
- Blogs
- The Internet and education