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Media Mention
Stephanie Goldberg, CNN
May 28, 2010
(CNN) -- Web search engines make our lives easier: They connect us with what we're searching for in a matter of seconds, and sometimes they bring us to places we didn't even know we were looking for.
But they can also teach us a lot about ourselve...
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Martha Irvine, Associated Press
May 27, 2010
CHICAGO – What's that? A young college grad lecturing her elders about online privacy?
It might go against conventional wisdom, but a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project is adding fuel to the argument that young people are fas...
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Suzanne Choney, msnbc.com
May 26, 2010
More adults — especially young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 — are actively monitoring what is being said and posted about themselves online and taking steps to protect their privacy, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's In...
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Marco R. della Cava, USA Today
May 26, 2010
The Web often comes across as a global watering hole where young adults freely trade personal information while more cautious older visitors stand to the side for fear of losing a grip on their online privacy.
But a new survey turns that notion on...
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Infographic
May 26, 2010
What we think others can see about us online
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Report
May 26, 2010Mary Madden, Aaron Smith
How people monitor and maintain their identity through search and social media.
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Media Mention
Nora Young, CBC Radio
May 26, 2010
Nora Young of CBC Radio's Spark talked to Mary Madden about her recent report that looks at reputation management and social media, and how people monitor their identity and also search for others online. A shorter version of this interview will air ...
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Ben Rooney, CNNMoney.com
May 25, 2010
"The rules of engagement with social media sites keep changing and this has created an environment where users are often forced to learn through trial and error," said Mary Madden, senior researcher at the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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Laura M. Holson, New York Times
May 8, 2010
[Young adults] are more diligent than older adults, however, in trying to protect themselves. In a new study to be released this month, the Pew Internet Project has found that people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than...
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Media Mention
Allison Klein, Washington Post
Mar 17, 2010
Mary Madden, senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center's Internet and & American Life Project, said 72 percent of millennials use social networking sites, compared with 40 percent of adults 30 or older.*
She said young people share per...
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