Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites
The majority of teen social media users find online social networks to be “mostly kind” spaces, yet 88% have witnessed mean or cruel behavior there.
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The majority of teen social media users find online social networks to be “mostly kind” spaces, yet 88% have witnessed mean or cruel behavior there.
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 […]
Two other factors seem to drive people to the internet when it comes to getting information about local subjects: mobile connections via smartphones or tablet computers and participation in the digital environment by sharing or creating local material themselves. Mobile and participatory news consumers This survey measured mobile local news and information access by asking […]
The study, “Twitter and the Campaign” uses content analysis data from two sources. Data regarding the quantity of coverage in the traditional press is derived from the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s in-house coding operation. (Click here for details on how that project, also known as PEJ’s News Coverage Index, is conducted.) To arrive at […]
The internet has become a significant local information source The internet has already surpassed newspapers as a source Americans turn to for national and international news.[5.numoffset=”5″ Pew Research Center, “Internet Gains on Television as Public’s Main News Source.” Available at: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1844/poll-main-source-national-international-news-internet-television-newspapers] The findings from this survey now show its emerging role as a source for local […]
Prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project JULY 2011 Summary The 2011 Teens and Digital Citizenship Survey sponsored by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 799 teens ages 12 to 17 years old […]