Prepare a 5- to 10-minute class presentation on the National Geographic Society's Survey 2000. Go to the National Geographic Web site at http://survey2000.nationalgeographic.com to view some of the results. Write up a brief outline for your presentation including information on study design, questions asked, and major findings.

Is the National Geographic Society's perspective representative of other researchers? Check out the reports of the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society's Internet survey at http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/ and of the Pew Internet Project at http://www.pewinternet.org, as well as the Digital Future report from the University of Southern California Annenberg School's Center for the Digital Future site, http://www.digitalcenter.org/ . Write up some information regarding the surveys and their goals, methods, and major findings. What do the researchers conclude about the impact of the Internet on social life in the United States? How do these conclusions compare to each other and to those of the National Geographic Society researchers? What aspects of the methods, questions, or findings might explain differences in their conclusions? Do you think the researchers approached their