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Teens, Texting, and Social Isolation | Pew Research Center's Int
Our recent report, Teens and Mobile Phones , found that more teens report contacting their friends on a daily basis using texting (54%) than interacting with them face-to-face outside of school (33%). Some recent commentary suggests that this is evidence that teens are becoming less social. There are several points to be made.
Overview Daily text messaging among American teens has shot up in the past 18 months, from 38% of teens texting friends daily in February of 2008 to 54% of teens texting daily in September 2009 . And it's not just frequency – teens are sending enormous quantities of text messages a day.
Teens and Mobile Phones | Pew Research Center's Internet & Ameri
It was a pretty typical pre-teen exchange, one familiar through the generations. Except this one had a distinctly 2010 twist.
How Does Technology Affect Kids’ Friendships? - NYTimes.com
College students struggle to go without media for 24 hours
Internet and media addiction is not officially a psychiatric disorder, but many college students still seem to be suffering from it. In a recent study done by the University of Maryland, students who were asked to give up their media connections experienced withdrawal symptoms similar to those seen in drug and alcohol addicts, including cravings, anxieties, and preoccupation to the point of being unable to function well.
Pew: 71% of Young Adults Change Online Privacy Settings
The same day on which Facebook has rolled back changes to its default privacy settings, Pew Research has released a report on privacy and reputation among young adults that has some interesting results.Yesterday, we posted part one of the findings for "Children's Future Requests for Computers and the Internet" ( PDF summary ), an open innovation study by Latitude Research and ReadWriteWeb. The study asked children aged 12 and under to illustrate their ideas for new Web and computer technologies. In our previous post, we looked at the findings from an interaction angle.
Creation & Design: What Kids Want From Tech
Those vintage forms of academic dishonesty – crib notes scribbled on a palm, or cheat sheets tucked into a sleeve– haven’t gone away, but a generation of students more computer literate than their parents is forcing teachers to re-think the way they test students and blurring the definition of cheating. Students are more likely than ever to employ deceit to earn high grades, from text-messaging quiz answers to hacking into school networks and less likely than their teachers to call it cheating, according to a survey of 20,000 students conducted by the Canadian Council on Learning.
