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Media Mention
Susan Seliger, New York Times
May 23, 2012
When Wendy Naumann’s father and three siblings received her mother’s diagnosis — a terminal brain tumor — they were overwhelmed. Just communicating within the family to keep everybody updated on her mother’s condition was exhausting, as they were spr...
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Alice Marwick & danah boyd, The Daily Beast
May 20, 2012
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Far from being a source of isolation, the teen’s phone is a tether to loved ones; it is a personal object, a crucial connection. A study by the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda asked one thousand students in ten countries...
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Ted Anthony, Associated Press
May 18, 2012
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A digital manifest destiny is playing out, built upon the notion that the United States’ outward expansion continues apace on the virtual frontier. What the self-defined sense of American exceptionalism built in the physical world, it is now...
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Media Mention
Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press
May 17, 2012
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, says that new communications channels -- from the telephone to radio, TV and personal computers -- often breed a cadre of holdouts in their early days.
"It's disorienting because ...
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Suzanne Choney, msnbc.com
May 12, 2012
Many of us are letting our smartphones use location information to do more and more things, but most of us have yet to adopt or embrace "geosocial" services like Foursquare. A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project says that 74 perc...
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Report
May 11, 2012Kathryn Zickuhr
74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location with friends
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Samantha Murphy, Mashable
May 11, 2012
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Smartphone adoption has grown from 35% in 2011 to 46% in 2012, bringing with it more access to location-based apps and services. The amount of consumers who “check in” to certain places via geo-social services has reached 18%, up from 12% in 201...
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Media Mention
Chloe Albanesius, PC Magazine
May 11, 2012
The number of people who use "geosocial" location-based services like Foursquare has more than doubled in the last year, according to a Friday report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
About 10 percent of adults now "check in" to vario...
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Presentation
May 10, 2012Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie will give the keynote presentation titled "Learning in the Digital Age: Where Libraries Fit In" at the 21st Annual Minitex ILL Conference in Minnesota.
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Media Mention
Digital Media and Learning Research Hub
May 7, 2012
The Digital Media and Learning Research Hub spoke with Pew Internet Senior Research Specialist Amanda Lenhart about some of the vast research she has done on teens and the internet/technology:
"While working with youth in afterschool settings in t...
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More in: Teens, Mobile, Social Networking, Safety, Web 2.0