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Somini Sengupta, New York Times
Nov 20, 2012
The Pew Internet Center recently asked that especially anxious cohort of Americans — parents of teenagers who use the Internet — if they were concerned that their child’s online activities “might affect their future academic or employment opportuniti...
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Report
Nov 20, 2012Mary Madden, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, Amanda Lenhart, Maeve Duggan
Parents have a range of concerns about how their children’s online activities might affect their privacy and many have taken steps to monitor their children and encourage online safety
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Presentation
Jul 11, 2012Kristen Purcell
How teens use the internet, mobile phones, social media and social networking sites,as well as teen communication preferences and online information consumption.
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Donna Tam, CNET
Jul 11, 2012
Most teenagers use social-media sites and parents are wise to it, "friending" their kids and monitoring which sites they visit at an increased rate, according to ...
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Presentation
Jun 5, 2012Amanda Lenhart
Amanda Lenhart spoke about how teens use technology and about youth social and emotional experiences in social media spaces.
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Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post
May 13, 2012
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In an online survey of 1,300 teen drivers with cellphones, scheduled for release Monday, the youths said that even though their parents may warn them against it, they think adult drivers send text messages “all the time.”
A sizable proportion...
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Digital Media and Learning Research Hub
May 7, 2012
The Digital Media and Learning Research Hub spoke with Pew Internet Senior Research Specialist Amanda Lenhart about some of the vast research she has done on teens and the internet/technology:
"While working with youth in afterschool settings in t...
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Nick Bilton, New York Times
May 6, 2012
People once took photographs so they could capture a moment for themselves and keep it forever. Then digital cameras and cellphones turned photos into something more ephemeral and more easily shared. But as the case of Anthony Weiner demonstrated, ph...
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The Kojo Nnamdi Show
Apr 19, 2012
Amanda Lenhart was a guest on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU, Washington D.C.'s NPR station. Joined by Joseph Viola, school psychologist and professor of psychology at GWU, and Sharon Cindrich, parenting author and columnist, the conversation centered ...
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Report
Feb 9, 2012Lee Rainie, Amanda Lenhart, Aaron Smith
85% of the adults who use social media report that people are usually kind on the sites. At the same time, 49% have witnessed mean and offensive behavior and they usually respond by ignoring it.
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