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"Part of the original reason people went to these games was for a sense of time out," said Sherry Turkle, a psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied Internet role-playing.

But shoppers, it turned out, do not always pay the lowest price, and not because they are unaware of it, according to research by several professors who have studied Internet pricing.

Having previously studied internet technology at university, taught ICT for almost four years and being a bit of a geek, I felt quite secure in my subject knowledge for computing but was not feeling confident with my programming skills.

"You see people trading movies today the way they were doing MP3's three or four years ago," said Kelly Truelove, a consultant in Redwood City, Calif., who has studied Internet file-trading and has found that the average size of files is increasing, an indication that more of them are video.

Vicky Rideout, vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, which has studied Internet use by race, ethnicity and age, cautioned that a new dimension of the digital divide might be opening because groups that were newer to the Internet tended to use less-advanced hardware and had slower connection speeds.

Even if they find a job, they might not be able to perform well at it without the internet skills required in the working world.Bianca Reisdorf, who has studied internet use in Britain and Sweden at the University of Oxford, remarks that it is a common misconception that the number of "offliners" is in decline.

Banks had a similar problem during the dot-com bubble, when analysts who studied Internet-related stocks felt compelled to publish bullish opinions, in part to help colleagues win deal-making business with publicly traded companies.

"There are new perils for kids, but no evidence that kids are on the whole more endangered today as a result of the Internet," said David Finkelhor, a criminologist at the University of New Hampshire who has studied Internet-related crime.

Academics are starting to study Internet memes and their impact on culture.

After working for Sanford C. Bernstein, an investment firm in New York, she wanted to concentrate on studying Internet commerce and applied only to Vanderbilt, she said.

"It's a deliberate effort to control the means of communication," said Juan Carlos de Martin, the founder of the Nexa Center at Turin's Polytechnic University, which studies Internet use in Italy.