Project NOAH I

Project NOAH I was completed in the mid-eighties. The study involved a two-year national longitudinal panel of computer owner households. The principle research issues addressed in Project NOAH were: 1) to empirically determine the household characteristics that influence computer adoption/ use, 2) to determine the nature and extent of home computer use, 3) to examine the reciprocal relations of household and the computer, 4) to access the perception of the households regarding how the computer activity fits into the overall social dynamics within the household. Click here to download the Project NOAH I Report.

Project NOAH II

This current study examines the impact of the new technologies of information, communication, and computerization on American families. It is both an extension of the earlier study (Project NOAH I) that examined the impact of computers in American homes in the mid-eighties, and includes new areas that have resulted from the emergence of new technologies in the mid-nineties. It examines the social processes and factors accounting for the greater integration, or "domestication" of the PC and related information technologies into the American household.

For full details of the study, click here. To view the Project NOAH II Report, click here.