Presentation

Social Media and Young Adults

Feb 4, 2010Amanda Lenhart

This presentation covers recent findings on wireless, mobile internet use, social networks, content creation, blogging, Twitter and sexting among teens and young adults.

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Most younger Net users get there wirelessly

Suzanne Choney, msnbc.com

Feb 3, 2010

Fourth-fifths of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 are wireless Internet users, and while many of them are getting to the Web using their laptops, they're also using netbooks, cell phones, game consoles and e-readers, according to a new repo...

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For Teens, Blogging on Decline as Social Media Use Grows | Video

Hari Sreenivasan, PBS

Feb 3, 2010

Amanda Lenhart dropped by The Rundown to outline the highlight of their latest report examining social media use among teens and young adults.

Watch the video at PBS.org

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Social Media and Young Adults

Feb 3, 2010Amanda Lenhart, Kristen Purcell, Aaron Smith, Kathryn Zickuhr

Social media and mobile internet use among teens and young adults.

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At Las Vegas electronics show, the Web and cars meet

Cecilia Kang, Washington Post

Jan 10, 2010

Even as policymakers and safety advocates worry that the use of gizmos in cars is driving people to distraction, companies including Ford Motor showcased dashboard innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show. The topic was so prominent, in fact, tha...

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Report

Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics

Jan 5, 2010Lee Rainie

As of December 2009, 74% of American adults (ages 18 and older) use the internet.

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Technology Leapfrogs Schools and Jurisdictions

James Warren, New York Times

Dec 27, 2009

A 16-year-old honors student took a nude photo of herself, used her cellphone to send it to a friend and, bingo, for the last two weeks the photo has made the rounds of the three-year-old school with 1,300 students. Plainfield police seized some stud...

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Census Bureau: Texting Grows Among Americans

Renee Montagne, NPR's Morning Edition

Dec 17, 2009

Some recent numbers released by the Census Bureau show that Americans sent more than twice as many texts in December 2008 than they did in December 2007. Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center's Internet and American ...

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Teens and Sexting

Dec 15, 2009Amanda Lenhart

How and why minor teens are sending sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images via text messaging.

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Sexting hasn't reached most young teens, poll finds

Donna St. George, Washington Post

Dec 15, 2009

About 1 in 7 American teens with cellphones say they have received nude or nearly nude photos by text message, according to a new survey on the phenomenon known as "sexting."

Helping to define the little-understood trend in teen life, the poll fou...

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