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Homo digitalis - Is the Internet destroying society?

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  • Ludger Wößmann
  • Oliver Falck
  • Stefan Bauernschuster

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Surfing alone with a PC or smart phone - is this what everyday life looks like in the digital society? The Ifo Institute and Initiative D21 examined how the Internet influences our social life. At a presentation in Berlin on 26 May 2001 - "Homo Digitalis - Is the Internet destroying society?" - current research results were presented and discussed by a panel of experts. Ludger Wößmann, Ifo Institute and University of Munich, Oliver Falck and Stefan Bauernschuster, Ifo Institute, see no grounds for a hostile attitude towards innovation and for cultural pessimism. The Internet does not erode the foundations of society. On the contrary, home use of the Internet influences the social activities of children and adolescents positively, on average.

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  • Ludger Wößmann & Oliver Falck & Stefan Bauernschuster, 2011. "Homo digitalis - Is the Internet destroying society?," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 64(12), pages 10-12, July.
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