Aslib Proceedings: Volume 50 Issue 10

Fear and loathing in cyberspace: how mainstream US media almost missed the biggest communication story in history

Vic Sussman

Shows how the US media were very slow to spot the potential of the Internet. When they finally did they proceeded to demonize it. Examples are given of this demonization. However…

British political parties and their web pages

Caroline Auty, David Nicholas

The General Election of 1997 was marked by much political activity on the web. An analysis of 20 party web sites a year later on shows that most parties have kept a web presence…

Charging for access to university‐wide networked database services in British academia

Harry East, Badekale Ajibade, Kathryn Leach

UK Higher Education has a well‐established network (JANET) accessible to its students and staff. Its existence made it possible for a trans‐university body (JISC) to sponsor the…

Internet access for older people

Monica Blake

This paper examines, via the published literature and interview, the relationship between older people and the technology needed to gain access to the Internet (mainly personal…