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Making Their Mark
11/14/2005 | 
Coverage
Monique Curet, The Columbus Dispatch
'“When 17-year-old Chris Curphey goes online, he doesn’t just check his e-mail or browse retail sites, as many adults might do.
Instead, the high-school senior creates Web sites and charges clients for his work. And he’s not the only teenager who contributes content to the Web.
A study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that 57 percent of online teens — about 12 million kids between the ages of 12 and 17 — are creating content for the Internet.
That includes setting up blogs; building or working on a personal Web page or one for school, a friend or an organization; sharing original creations such as artwork, photos, stories or videos; or remixing online content into new creations.
Mary Madden, a co-author of the teen report, said that remixing content is a way for teens to put a personal stamp on it, at a stage when that’s what their lives are focused on: establishing identity.
Teenagers also are simply more tech savvy than adults, Madden said.
‘‘They’ve been around this technology at a more formative time in their lives," she said. ‘‘Teens are coming into this in a more organic way."
Curphey, the Pew data shows, is among 32 percent of teens who say they have created or worked on Web pages or blogs for others.
‘‘Making their images come to life and be published is just amazing," said Curphey, who does most of his Web design for people in the music industry. ‘‘It allows you to be creative and get paid for it."
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