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Media Mention
Jan 6, 2010New York Times
One byproduct of the digital revolution is that trust is being assigned new meaning. According to the Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center, one in five teenagers polled shares online passwords as a way to build trust and f...
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More in: Dating, Identity, Social Networking
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Media Mention
Dec 8, 2009New York Times
Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill. Instantaneous and seemingly casual, they can be confirmation of a clandestine affair, a record of the not-so-discreet who sometimes forget that everything digital leav...
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More in: Mobile, Identity
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Media Mention
Sep 17, 2009Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Matching mullets, regrettable tattoos, metal mouths and goofy grins.
Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the pages of an old family album or studying the photo frames...
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Media Mention
Sep 2, 2009NPR
Some of the change is cultural. Users have been flocking to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, where they voluntarily share all kinds of details about their lives.
In some ways, the meteoric success of these sites could ...
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More in: Identity, Search, Social Networking
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Media Mention
May 11, 2009Bit by Bit
Mary Madden appeared on the May 7th edition of "Seedlings" to discuss her work at the Project. Seedlings is a weekly education and technology podcast created by teachers for teachers.
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More in: Education, Social Networking, Web 2.0
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Media Mention
Dec 30, 2007New York Times
Susannah Fox, associate director of the Pew project and an author of both the 2000 and 2007 surveys, told me that she was surprised by the reduced concern about online publication of personal information. Internet users are not just passively allo...
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More in: Identity, Work, Web 2.0
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Media Mention
Dec 17, 2007San Francisco Chronicle
"About half of the online adult population has looked up themselves or someone else online, according to a survey released Sunday.
A good 36 percent said they have searched the Web for someone with whom they've lost touch, and 9 percent hav...
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More in: Search, Identity
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Media Mention
Dec 17, 2007Search Engine Land
"A Pew Internet Survey out this week found that 47% of internet users have done ego searches, up from 22% five years ago. That nearly half of internet users are searching for themselves seems excessive, but only 3% say they check regularly. Most ...
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More in: Search, Identity
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Media Mention
Dec 16, 2007Associated Press
"More Americans are Googling themselves--and many are checking out their friends, co-workers and romantic interests, too.
In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U.S. adult Internet users have l...
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More in: Search, Identity