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Greg Toppo, USA Today
Nov 5, 2009
It's easy – and tempting – to believe that cellphones and the Internet are making Americans more isolated as they filter out those around them and focus on lighted screens, distant Facebook friends and LOL conversations.
But a new survey finds tha...
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Belinda Goldsmith, Miral Fahmy (ed.), Reuters News
Nov 5, 2009
Contrary to popular belief, the Internet and mobile phones are not isolating people but enhancing their social worlds, according to a U.S. survey.
The survey was sparked by a 2006 study by U.S. sociologists who argued technology is advancing a tre...
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Jon Gordon, American Public Media | Future Tense
Nov 5, 2009
A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that the Internet and mobile phones do not lead to social isolation, as some previous research suggested. In fact, there's plenty of evidence that people who spend a lot of time online h...
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David Glenn, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 5, 2009
Americans tend to have fewer close confidants today than they did two decades ago -- but that isn't because they're all huddled over their computers playing World of Warcraft or reading the Volokh Conspiracy.
A ...
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Stefanie Olsen, New York Times Bits Blog
Nov 5, 2009
Hundreds of daily updates come from friends on Facebook and Twitter, but do people actually feel closer to each other?
It turns out the size of the average American’s social circle is smaller today than 20 years ago, as measured by the number of s...
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Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
Nov 4, 2009
NEW YORK — A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation.
Online activities such as e-mail, blogging and frequenting...
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Suzanne Choney, MSNBC
Nov 4, 2009
Americans’ love affairs with mobile phones and the Internet are not contributing factors to an increase in social isolation in the United States, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Despite the fact that more an...
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Report
Nov 4, 2009Keith Hampton, Lauren Sessions Goulet, Eun Ja Her, Lee Rainie
How the internet and mobile phones impact Americans’ social networks.
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Presentation
Oct 15, 2009Aaron Smith
Aaron Smith discusses the role the Internet plays in opening civic and political debate to historically underrepresented groups.
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Vincent Rossmeier, Salon.com
Sep 19, 2009
[From an interview with Dennis Baron, author of "A Better Pencil".]
... Computer socialization -- is this putting an end to face-to-face human interaction? Or does it let us expand our social networks when face-to-face communication is not possibl...
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