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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 […]

Half of Online Teens Download Music, One in Three Download Video; One in Five Have a Blog; One in Five Remix Others’ Digital Material into Their Own Creations

The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.

Introduction Beyond understanding the conditions of internet access inside the home, it is important to understand how the internet and other communication technologies fit into teens’ external environments and increasingly complex lives. For most teenagers, technology plays a crucial role in their everyday lives, and the internet is the backbone of their overall media milieu. […]

Face-to-face and phone time still beats screen time. Even with their great affection for the technology, teens still report, on average, spending more time physically with their friends doing social things outside of school than they report interacting with friends through technology. An average youth between ages 12 and 17 reports spending 10.3 hours a […]

Introduction Communication tools have long been at the heart of the popularity and utility of the internet for teens and adults. Email remains the most commonly reported activity among all groups of internet users. While many families initially acquire a computer and internet access for educational purposes, entertainment and communications functions generally eclipse school-focused online […]

The nature of teens’ online activities changes with age and access. In the same way that age matters when looking at patterns of internet use among different generations of adults, teens continue to demonstrate different phases of internet use as they grow older and new technologies become available to them. Some of these changes in […]