The hall of mirrors: The internet in Latin America

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Volumn 99, Issue 634, 2000, Pages 72-76

  Gómez, Ricardo ^a  

^a International Development Research Center   (Canada)

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1. Estimates of Internet usage vary greatly because of measurement difficulties. Some argue that not more than 5 million people used the Internet in Latin America in 1999; others claim 34 million will use it in 2000.
2. Katherine Reilly, "Digital Revolution versus Cuban Revolution: The Internet in Cuba" (unpublished paper, Carleton University, December 1999).
3. Information on nearly any topic imaginable can be found on the Internet (recent studies calculate more than 800 million pages on the Internet, although many may be duplicates). Nonetheless, an estimated 83 percent of current web sites are of a commercial nature, while the remaining 17 percent is allocated as follows: science and education 6 percent; health 3 percent; personal web sites 2.5 percent; pornography 1.5 percent (although most pornography is also commercial); and others 4 percent. (See http://www.wwwmetrics.com.)
4. See http://www.nielsenratings.com.
5. Giovanni Sartori, Homo Videns (Rome: Laterza, 1997).
6. See Ricardo Gómez, "The Nostalgia of Virtual Community," Information Technology and People, vol. 11, no. 3.