document: Domesticating computers and the Internet The people who use computers and the ways they use them have changed substantially over the past 25 years . In the beginning highly educated people , mostly men , in technical professions used computers for work , but over time a much broader range of people are using computers for personal and domestic purposes . This trend is still continuing , and over a shorter time scale has been replicated with the use of the Internet . The paper uses data from four national surveys to document how personal computers and the Internet have become increasingly domesticated since 1995 and to explore the mechanisms for this shift . Now people log on more often from home than from places of employment and do so for pleasure and for personal purposes rather than for their jobs . Analyses comparing veteran Internet users to novices in 1998 and 2000 and analyses comparing the change in use within a single sample between 1995 and 1996 support two complementary explanations for how these technologies have become domesticated . Women , children , and less well-educated individuals are increasingly using computers and the Internet and have a more personal set of motives than well-educated men . In addition , the widespread diffusion of the PC and the Internet and the response of the computing industry to the diversity in consumers has led to a rich set of personal and domestic services
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extractive_keyphrases: internet highly educated people technical professions domestic purposes national surveys personal computers novices women children computing industry domestic services
abstractive_keyphrases: computer domestication personal usage veteran internet users personal motives pc diffusion demographics online behavior