Once Again, The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be
The idea that each generation of children will grow up to be better off than the one that preceded it has always been a part of the American dream.
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Part 6. Issues about computers and the internet: Awareness, interest, attitudes, aptitude, self-confidence
Introduction The Pew Internet Project has probed some of the softer issues surrounding men’s and women’s internet use. Over the years, we have asked a variety of questions about users’ awareness of internet issues and developments, and about their general interest in technology and the internet. We have asked about users’ perceived aptitude and self-confidence […]
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Keeping in Contact with Core and Significant Ties
There has been an explosion in the modes and reach of remote communication. When Wellman conducted his early studies of social ties in 1968 and 1979,[8.numoffset=”8″ See Wellman (1979) and Wellman and Wortley (1990).] the results were relatively straightforward. Americans either telephoned (using traditional “landline” phones, of course)[9. There is no popular term for traditional […]
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Part 3. Patterns of Internet Use: The where, when, and how much of men’s and women’s internet use
Overall, men spend slightly more time online and go online more frequently than women. Various measures of intensity of internet use suggest men are slightly more engaged with their lives online than women. Measures of overall time spent online, frequency of going online, and likelihood to go online on any given day are all stronger […]
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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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Aiming at Younger Audiences
New tabloid breed is more than screaming headlines but could they be blueprint to the future? Aiming at Younger Audiences A major aspect of new free tabloids, according to their own descriptions, was their orientation toward youth. Newspaper readership, like much news consumption, skews old. The average age of a newspaper reader is 53, according […]
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57% of Teen Internet Users Create, Remix or Share Content Online
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