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    Teen Content Creators and Consumers

    American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations.

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    EXTRA! EXTRA!

    A new PEJ study takes an in-depth look at tabloids and compares them to traditional broadsheet newspapers.

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    Part 1. Teens as Content Creators

    Online teens enjoy new opportunities to create, remix, and share digital content. Thanks to the internet, American teenagers can engage media material and create their own content in ways their parents could not. Today’s online teens live in a world filled with self-authored, customized, and on-demand content, much of which is easily replicated, manipulated, and […]

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    Findings

    Executive Summary Paper presented to the 33rd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference September 24, 2005 John B. Horrigan Director of Research Pew Internet & American Life Project jhorrigan@pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet 202.419.4512   Executive Summary: The rate of growth in penetration of high-speed internet at home has slowed and could slow further after several years of rapid growth. […]

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    References

    Bauer, J.M., Gai, P., Kim, J., Muth, A., Wildman, S.S. (2002), “Whither Broadband Policy”. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. Available online at http://tprc.org/papers/2002/72/Broadband_v1.pdf. Bleha, Thomas (2005). “Down to the Wire”, Foreign Affairs. May/June. Crandall, Robert W. and Charles L. Jackson (2001). The $500 Billion Opportunity: The Potential Economic Benefits of […]

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    Reconnecting to the Network After Katrina

    In a natural disaster where most lines of communication have been severed, including telephone, cellular phone, cable and fiber optic, how do 100,000’s of displaced people get access to the internet? Community Technology organizations step into th…

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    Teens and Technology

    Today’s American teens live in a world enveloped by communications technologies; the internet and cell phones have become a central force that fuels the rhythm of daily life.

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    Strong Public Support for Right to Die

    Summary of Findings An overwhelming majority of the public supports laws that give patients the right to decide whether they want to be kept alive through medical treatment. And fully 70% say there are circumstances when patients should be allowed to die, while just 22% believe that doctors and nurses should always do everything possible […]

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    Media Anger Management

    Much has been made of the surge of emotion among journalists who covered the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and to a lesser degree Hurricane Rita.