The Internet has evolved from Web 1.0, with static web pages and limited interactivity, to Web 2.0, with dynamic … Internet content has generally remained the same: zero. Because no transaction records the "purchase" of this content, its … value is not reflected in measured growth and productivity. To capture the contribution of the "free" Internet, we model the …

We investigate the effects of the rise of the Internet as an additional mass medium on news consumption patterns and …. Furthermore, these altered news consumption patterns have no or small effects on political attitudes. -- news ; the Internet …