Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

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Internet and Technology

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    Back to the Future

    Social media is proliferating, inside and outside the classroom. What have we learned and what is on the horizon?

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    Teens and Distracted Driving

    Twenty-six percent of American teens of driving age say they have texted while driving, and half (48%) of all teens ages 12 to 17 say they’ve been a passenger while a driver has texted behind the wheel.

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    The new news audience

    How news consumers (and now news participators) have changed in the digital age

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    Tell the FDA the whole story, please

    The FDA should hear about the reality of the information marketplace, which is increasingly mobile and social, not about the past failings of consumers to check the source and date of health information online.

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    Social Isolation and New Technology

    People who use modern information and communication technologies have larger and more diverse social networks, according to new national survey findings that for the first time explore how people use the internet and mobile phones to interact with…

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    Surviving in the new information ecology

    Lee discusses the latest findings of the Pew Internet Project and why they suggest that libraries can play a role in people’s social networks in the future.