Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites
How American teens navigate the new world of “digital citizenship”
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Introduction
This study aims to understand the social and emotional climate that teens experience in spaces where they can interact with others online. There has been considerable concern among parents, teachers, policy makers, and advocates about the nature and intensity of online social encounters among teens. In this research, we pay particular attention to teens’ experiences […]
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Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Information Sources
Overview Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since 1985. However, these bleak findings are put into some perspective by the fact that news organizations are more trusted sources of information than are many other […]
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Getting Past the Early-Adopter Stage
Roadblocks and Opportunities What will it take to bring this to the next level? Let’s go over the roadblocks: pockets of people who are truly offline, which mostly describes people age 70 and older or those living with chronic disease or disability people who see no reason to engage in their health, who are not […]
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Peer-to-peer Healthcare
How Facebook Saved a Life Previous research by the Pew Internet Project identified something we call “The Mobile Difference.” When you hand someone a smartphone they are more likely to share, to create, to forward, to record and upload a video, to update their status – to participate, not just consume. And when we talk […]
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Part 2: Social Media and Digital Citizenship: What teens experience and how they behave on social network sites
Section 1: The majority of teens have positive online experiences, but some are caught in an online feedback loop of meanness and negative experiences. This section of the report examines teens’ perceptions and social experiences online. We take readings on the overall emotional climate of social media spaces and then delve into their specific experiences, […]