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    Appendix C: Countries by Regional Classification

    Asia-Pacific Afghanistan American Samoa Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cook Islands Cyprus Fed. States of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia Guam Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Japan Kazakhstan Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Laos Macau Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Mongolia Nauru Nepal New Caledonia New Zealand Niue North Korea Northern Mariana Islands Pakistan Palau […]

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    Appendix B: Countries by Economic Classification

    High Income (2013 per capita GNI of $12,616 U.S. dollars or more) Andorra Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belgium Bermuda Brunei Canada Cayman Islands Channel Islands Chile Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Equatorial Guinea Estonia Faeroe Islands Finland France French Polynesia Germany Greece Greenland Guam Hong Kong Iceland Ireland Isle of […]

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    Focus Groups In collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, this report includes quotes gathered through a series of exploratory in-person focus group interviews about privacy and digital media, with a focus on social media sites, conducted by the Berkman Center’s Youth and Media Project between February and April 2013. The […]

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    Race and Voting

    In the next several weeks the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the requirement that several states, mostly in the South, get “pre-clearance” from the Justice Department before they make any changes to their election laws. The requirement was part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was an emergency […]

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    As the Trayvon Martin case goes to trial, remembering a major media event

    Today marks the beginning of what is likely to be a closely watched courtroom battle—the murder trial of George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of 17-year old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. While there has been ongoing coverage of the case and the run-up to the trial, it may be hard […]

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    Teens, Social Media, and Privacy

    Youth are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends.

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    Part 1: Teens and Social Media Use

    Teens’ Twitter use has grown significantly: One in four (24%) online teens uses Twitter, up from 16% 2011. Fully 95% of those ages 12-17 use the internet. Eight in ten online teens use some kind of social media. Twitter is still not in the same league as Facebook, which attracts 77% of online teens. Still, […]

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    Part 3: Reputation Management on Social Media

    Teens take steps to shape their reputation, manage their networks, and mask information they don’t want others to know. Teens are cognizant of their online reputations and take steps to curate the content and appearance of their social media presence. Teens’ management of their profiles can take a variety of forms—we asked teen social media […]

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    Attitudes about Aging: A Global Perspective

    Overview At a time when the global population of people ages 65 and older is expected to triple to 1.5 billion by mid-century, public opinion on whether the growing number of older people is a problem varies dramatically around the world, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Concern peaks in East Asia, where nearly […]

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