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    Parents and Teens: Filters & Content Creation

    This presentation covers two main themes — what are parents currently doing to protect their children from unwanted content, and how are adolescent and adult internet users producing and sharing their own content online.

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    Teens Create Their Own Space Online

    Amanda Lenhart joins Talk of the Nation with guests danah boyd and Parry Aftab in a series of interviews on the phenomenon of the popular social networking website Myspace.com.

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    Generations Online

    Internet users ages 12 to 28 years old have embraced the online applications that enable communicative, creative, and social uses. Internet users ages 29 to 69 years old are more likely to engage in online activities that require some capital.

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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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    Demographics of Teen Content Creators

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

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    The Higher Drop-Out Rate of Foreign-Born Teens

    A report on high school enrollment points to the importance of schooling abroad in understanding the dropout problem for immigrant teens, finding that those teens have often fallen behind in their education before reaching the United States.

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    The High Schools Hispanics Attend

    A report on the characteristics of high schools attended by different racial and ethnic groups finds that Hispanic teens are more likely than blacks and whites to attend the nation’s largest public high schools.

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    From the VCR to the Internet—some things never change

    There’s the old saw that if you can’t program your VCR (or now maybe DVD or even TIVO?) you should just hand the remote to the nearest child. Recent data collected by the Pew Internet Project suggest that the same is true when it comes to the inte…