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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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The Pew Internet Project tracks online safety issues related to teens as well as adults, from cyberbullying to stranger contact to fraud.
Jun 18, 2010Mary Madden, Lee Rainie
Adults are just as likely as teens to have texted while driving and are substantially more likely to have talked on the phone while driving.
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May 18, 2010Amanda Lenhart
In a brown bag lunch talk given to FTC, FCC and Department of Education staff, Amanda talks about teens and mobile phones - who has them, how they use them and how schools and parents approach and manage the devices in the home and in the classroom.
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May 6, 2010Amanda Lenhart
An updated look at the research and definitions around bullying and cyberbullying. Presented to the Youth Online Safety Working Group assembled by NCMEC, Amanda's talk unpacks both what current research can tell us about cyberbullying as well as wher...
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Feb 26, 2010Mary Madden
This week we filed a public comment in response to the Federal Communications Notice of Inquiry on the issue of "Empowering Parents and Protecting Kids in an Evolving Media Landscape."
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Alan Greenblatt, NPR
Feb 25, 2010
It's fun to brag when you're at a great bar or going off on vacation. Social networking sites and location-based apps have made it easy to broadcast that kind of information to your friends. The problem is that you may not just be making your friends...
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Cecilia Kang, Washington Post
Jan 10, 2010
Even as policymakers and safety advocates worry that the use of gizmos in cars is driving people to distraction, companies including Ford Motor showcased dashboard innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show. The topic was so prominent, in fact, tha...
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John Hockenberry, Celeste Headlee, Jen Poyant, PRI and WNYC's The Takeaway
Dec 10, 2009
Senior Research Specialist Amanda Lenhart and Bryan Taylor, Unit Chief for Crimes Against Persons in the Canyon County Prosecutors Office, talked about online dangers faced by...
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Sara Stroud, THE Journal
Oct 1, 2009
School districts are turning the tables against cyberbullies, using technology to flush out and crack down on online harassment. [...] MORE THAN 43 PERCENT of teenagers have been the victims of cyberbullying, according to research from the Nati...
Sep 10, 2009Amanda Lenhart
Representatives from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the U.S. Internet Industry Association (USIIA) will discuss the new communities coming online in record numbers in the United State...
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May 13, 2009Amanda Lenhart
This talk surveys the current research on cyberbullying and online harassment, pulling in Pew Internet data as well as the work of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, Internet Solutions for Kids and other a...
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