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Pew asks: Where do you fit?
For those of us who love those quizzes that tell us where we fit, here’s one that may be just a little more highbrow.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project now offers an Internet Typology Quiz. This quiz joins Pew’s other quizzes: Test Your News IQ and the Beyond Red vs. Blue: Political Typology Test
Taking the Internet Typology Quiz, I discovered that–though I don’t fit the mostly male, mostly young demographic, or the precise description–I am an omnivore:
Omnivores make up 8% of the American public.
Basic Description
Members of this group use their extensive suite of technology tools to do an enormous range of things online, on the go, and with their cell phones. Omnivores are highly engaged with video online and digital content. Between blogging, maintaining their Web pages, remixing digital content, or posting their creations to their websites, they are creative participants in cyberspace.Defining Characteristics
You might see them watching video on an iPod. They might talk about their video games or their participation in virtual worlds the way their parents talked about their favorite TV episode a generation ago. Much of this chatter will take place via instant messages, texting on a cell phone, or on personal blogs. Omnivores are particularly active in dealing with video content. Most have video or digital cameras, and most have tried watching TV on a non-television device, such as a laptop or a cell phone.Omnivores embrace all this connectivity, feeling confident in how they manage information and their many devices. This puts information technology at the center of how they express themselves, do their jobs, and connect to their friends.
I wonder how many other librarians are omnivores. Let me know where you fit in your comments!
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About Joyce Valenza
Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, a technology writer, speaker, blogger and learner. Follow her on Twitter: @joycevalenza
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