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    Teens and Mobile Apps Privacy

    58% of American teens have downloaded an app to a cell phone or tablet. More than half of teen apps users have avoided an app due to concerns about sharing their personal information.

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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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    How Teens Share on Social Media

    Teens 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. Most teen social media users say they aren’t very concerned about third-party access to their data.

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    Pew Forum Renamed as “Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project”

    Washington, D.C. — The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life has been renamed the “Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project.” It also relaunched its website, which has been integrated into the main Pew Research Center site and redesigned to be more accessible and easier to use on mobile devices. While […]

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    What’s Next for Nonprofit Journalism?

    A recent roundtable, hosted by the Pew Research Center and the Knight Foundation, brought together key practitioners, funders and experts in the growing nonprofit news sector. Read and watch what they said about building sustainable business models and engaging audiences.

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    On Twitter: Anger greets the Zimmerman verdict

    The response on Twitter to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin was almost equally divided between sharing news about the verdict and weighing in on it. And among those offering opinions about the outcome, their conclusion was very different from the jurors’. According to a new Pew Research Center analysis of nearly […]

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    Modest Public Interest in Close of Zimmerman Trial

    Overview The final days of the trial of George Zimmerman, which concluded July 13 with a verdict of not guilty, attracted relatively modest public interest overall. In a weekend survey, 26% say they were following news about the trial very closely. This is lower than interest in the initial controversy over Trayvon Martin’s shooting when […]

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