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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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Adolescents have been called "digital natives," but data suggests that they are both comfortable with new technologies, and yet not always as technically savvy as we collectively believe them to be.
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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Donna St. George, Washington Post
Feb 3, 2010
According to a new report released Wednesday, only 8 percent of online teens have embraced Twitter, a notable low for a generation so passionate about technology. Think of the millions of text messages that teens send. Think of their endless hours on...
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Martha Irvine, Associated Press
Could it be that blogs have become online fodder for the — gasp! — more mature reader? A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tec...
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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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Dec 15, 2009Amanda Lenhart
How and why minor teens are sending sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images via text messaging.
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...
Melissa Long, CNN
Melissa Long: Do you see a different kind of sexting that's going on when you look at the different age groups? Amanda Lenhart: Well, certainly we see much more of this going on with the older teens. And part of that's because older teens are more...
John D. Sutter, CNN
Teenage sexting usually is done as part of a relationship or would-be relationship between teens, the Pew focus groups found. Some teens send sexts only to people with whom they are in a relationship; but those messages often are forwarded to peop...
Laura Sydell, NPR
Fifteen percent of teenagers who have cell phones say they are involved in sexting, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. The survey found that nearly 1 in 6 young people aged 12 to 17 has received ...
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The percentage of internet users age 18-24 use Twitter or another service, up from 19% in December 2008.
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.