Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

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Internet and Technology

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    Media & Medicine in Modern America

    Susannah Fox delivered a guest lecture for a history of medicine course regarding the role of the internet in health care over the last 15 years.

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    Social Media and Young Adults

    This presentation covers recent findings on wireless, mobile internet use, social networks, content creation, blogging, Twitter and sexting among teens and young …

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    Teen and Young Adult Internet Use

    A new Pew Internet Project report reveals that 93% of teens ages 12‐17 go online, as do 93% of young adults ages 18‐29. Three quarters (74%) of all adults ages 18 and older go online. Over the past ten years, teens and young adults have been consistently the two groups most likely to go online, even as the internet population has grown and even with documented larger increases in certain age cohorts (e.g. adults 65 and older).

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    Social Media and Young Adults

    Blogging among teens and young adults drops to half what it was in 2006. Wireless connectivity is high among those under 30 and social network use continues to rise, but certain features of the social sites are less popular with teens.

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    What’s the point of Health 2.0?

    I believe that, although very few people engage with their health on a daily or even weekly basis, it is important to understand what they do when their attention is focused on a health question.

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    Federal Agencies: First Responders to Health Questions

    Susannah Fox will provide data on the current internet population, with a particular focus on health communication, wireless adoption, social media, and implications for public health planning.