... watching television, gardening, reading newspapers, magazines and books, shopping, telephoning, going to the pub, doing nothing, writing letters, sleeping, playing computer games, and typing ... searching for information take high priority in Internet time (Table 1; Nie, Hillygus & Erbring; Howard, Rainie & Jones; Chen, Boase & Wellman; Katz & Rice; Quan-Haase & ... are engaging in e-commerce by shopping and buying products online: from 36 percent (SIQSS study, Nie & Erbring, 2000) to 51 percent (UCLA study) in the U.S., and 33 percent in Britain (National...