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Apr 25, 2008San Jose Mercury News
"OMG. Hieroglyphic text-speak is slipping into homework.
A national look at middle- and high-schoolers found that two-thirds of students have accidentally used instant-messaging style in their academic work, according to a survey released T...
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Apr 24, 2008The Associated Press, Google News
"It's nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project, in a study...
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Jan 3, 2008Arizona Daily Star
"In type that scrolls up the screen like the preface for Star Wars, a YouTube video reads, "For years, parents could not text message. They could not figure out how to record a voice mail. They could not even connect to the Internet without using ...
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Dec 20, 2007San Francisco Chronicle
"More and more teenagers are publishing their photos, diaries, videos and art online, fueled in part by social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, according to a report released Wednesday.
Almost two-thirds of online teens have c...
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Dec 16, 2007BoingBoing
"The excellent Pew and Internet Life project has just released its latest report, "Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency," filled with meaty data on the way that we're using the net to manage and crea...
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Oct 26, 2007eMarketer
Over two-thirds of parents (68%) have rules about the kinds of Web sites their teenaged children can visit, as well as rules about what kinds of information their children can share with people they talk to online, according to the Pew Internet...
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Oct 25, 2007Orlando Sentinel
The number of parents who think the Internet is beneficial for their children declined from 2004 to 2006, according to the study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. But parents don't necessarily see it as a bad influence, either.
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Oct 24, 2007Associated Press
Parents have become more ambivalent about the Internet, with a new study finding fewer of them considering it good for their children.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project said Wednesday that about 59 percent of Americans wi...
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Oct 15, 2007Associated Press Newswires
"Although they are more likely to be contacted by strangers online, teens who have posted photos of themselves or created personal profile pages aren't necessarily finding those contacts scary or uncomfortable, a new study finds.
In its lat...
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Jun 27, 2007InternetNews.com
"You've heard of the mean girl syndrome, a streak of cruelty that subsumes young girls bent on agonizing, terrorizing and otherwise bullying other boys and girls they deem uncool, too pretty, smart or guilty of some unknown offense.
Looks l...
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