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Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Internet and Technology
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Teens, Video Games and Time Use
An article in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine asks how adolescents spent their time, specifically looking at gaming in relation to other online and offline activities, and the relationship between time spent in various ac…
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Are our relationships defined by our online habits?
Everyone has a friend or two who takes that much longer to respond to emails because they just don’t ever check their accounts, who don’t want to join social networks and who never pop up on IM and gmail-chat. What happens when you fall in love w…
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Hobbyists Online
83% of online Americans say they have used the internet to seek information about their hobbies and 29% do so on a typical day.
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Online Worlds and Screen Time
Social networks for younger kids – Are online communities and avatar-based social worlds encouraging obesity?
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Screens Along the Silk Road
In my ongoing quest to visit as many internet cafes in China as possible, I was on the lookout last week during our visit to Urumqi (aka: Wulumuqi), a city of about 3 million along the Silk Road in the northwest corner of China.
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OMG Carl Kasell Wants to Be My Friend!?
I logged into my Facebook account the other day to check on something, and I flicked over to my friend requests page after noticing that there was a new one. It was (allegedly) from Carl Kasell, NPR radio personality.
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Perceptions of Safety in Social Networks
On Monday, an interview I did with Lexi Ramage of Youth Voices on social networks and perceptions of safety aired
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Internet Addiction in China
Internet addiction in China has been described as a “severe social problem that could threaten the nation’s future.”
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How the Other Half Goes Online
How 19th century institutions are adapting to their cities’ 21st century needs.