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The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries
11/3/2005 | 
Coverage
Tom Zeller Jr., The New York Times, Business
'“Melissa Paredes, a 16-year-old in Lompoc, Calif., maintains a Web site where she writes poetry, posts pictures and shares music. So when she was mourning her stepfather, David Grabowski, earlier this year, she reflexively channeled her grief into a multimedia tribute.
Using images she collected and scanned from photo albums, she created an online slide show, taking visitors on a virtual tour of Mr. Gabrowski's life - as a toddler, as a young man, at work. A collage of the photographs, titled "David Bruce Grabowski, 1966-2005," closes the memorial.
"It helped me a lot," Melissa said in an instant message, the standard method of communication among the millions of American teenagers who, according to a study released yesterday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, are fast becoming some of the most nimble and prolific creators of digital content online.
"At the market level, this means old business models are in upheaval," said Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew project. "At the legal level, this means the definition of property is up for grabs. And at the social level, it means that millions of those inspired to create have a big new platform with which they shape our culture."
According to the Pew survey, 57 percent of all teenagers between 12 and 17 who are active online - about 12 million - create digital content, from building Web pages to sharing original artwork, photos and stories to remixing content found elsewhere on the Web. Some 20 percent publish their own Web logs.”
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