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Media Mention
The Dallas Morning News
Dec 29, 2011
[...] According to a new report, most American teens who use social media say they and their contemporaries are mostly kind to one another on those sites. While online bullying is a legitimate concern, this survey indicates that it’s the exception, n...
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Presentation
Dec 13, 2011Amanda Lenhart
Amanda Lenhart, danah boyd, and Alice Marwick will discuss the ways young people interact online, how they manage their privacy, and common misconceptions of adults when it comes to cyberbullying at an event organized by Microsoft and The Family Onli...
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Anahad O’Connor, New York Times
Dec 3, 2011
Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center in Washington, noted that the report’s findings dovetailed with Pew research released last month. In that study, which involved 800 minors between 12 and 17, only 2 percent said ...
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Suzanne Choney, msnbc.com
Nov 9, 2011
“Social networking sites have created new spaces for teens to interact and they witness a mixture of altruism and cruelty on those sites,” said Amanda Lenhart, the report's lead author, in a statement. “For most teens, these are exciting and rewardin...
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Somini Sengupta, New York Times
Nov 9, 2011
State legislatures across the country have passed or proposed laws against what they call cyberbullying. But how do young people parse bullying from being mean online? And when it happens, what do they do about it?
A survey conducted by the Pew Re...
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Report
Nov 9, 2011Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, Kristen Purcell, Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie
How American teens navigate the new world of "digital citizenship"
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Claudia Feldman and Pete Holley, Houston Chronicle
Jun 6, 2011
A World Health Organization study released last week suggested a possible link between cellphone use and cancer, but early news reports didn't differentiate between talking and texting.
In fact, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, the chairman of the WHO adv...
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Presentation
Feb 9, 2011Kristen Purcell
Kristen Purcell presents Pew Internet findings on teen communication and social media use as part of a joint webinar with the Girl Scout Research Institute. (Updated with slides)
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