183 posts tagged Pew Internet
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Blog Therapy
http://www.talkturkey.us/ 2008/ 05/ blog-therapy.htmlBlog Therapy From CNN: "Roughly 12 million Americans have blogs, according to polls by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in 2006, and many seem to use them as a form of group therapy. A 2005 survey by Digital Marketing Services for AOL.com a found nearly half of the 600 people polled derived therapeutic benefits from personal blogging.
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Pew: Writing, Technology and Teens
http://blog.mobilevoter.org/ 2008/ 05/ pew-writing-tec.htmlFascinating survey data out from Pew about teens and writing. The gist of it is that teens are writing a lot more than their parents - text messages, social networking messages, and IM - but that they don't consider this kind of writing as "real writing." It's more like an expression - a verbal expression - than what they conceive of as the stuff they do for homework.
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Teens' definition of writing...
http://www.netfamilynews.org/ 2008/ 04/ teens-definition-of-writing.html...does not include all the texting, IMing, blogging, and commenting they're constantly doing online, and yet they're writing all the time as they compose phone text messages, IMs, blog posts, and comments in social-networking sites.
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Pew Internet Report on Writing, Technology, & Teens
http://tech.tricountyesc.org/ 2008/ 04/ 30/ pew-internet-report-on-writing-techn…The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report last week which documents their findings on teens’ writing and technology habits. The report explores writing skills, frequency, and attitude as they relate to student’s access to technology, including cell phones, the internet, and computer availability.
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Growing Up Online
http://www.impactlab.com/ 2008/ 04/ 30/ growing-up-online/Growing Up Online in: Internet, Latest Trend, analysis, business Nearly all teens in the US have grown up using the Internet Nearly all US teens ages 12 to 17 use the Internet, according to a September-November 2007 Pew Internet & American Life study.
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Typology of ICT Users: A Pew Center Survey
http://adamsmith.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 04/ 30/ 478/While doing some research on a project Adam came across this survey from the Pew Research Center in the USA on Internet usage. Out of curiosity he took it. He thinks some of his readers might find it interesting to do the same.
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Writing, Technology, and Teens: Our thoughts on the study published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project
http://www.writeitwell.com/ blog/ writing-technology-and-teens-our-thoughts-on-t…The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report called “Writing, Teens, and Technology.” In brief, the report finds that ”teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them.” More and more professionals are entering the workforce without the ability to express themselves clearly in writing.
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SFW: Pew releases a new study
http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 04/ 29/ sfw-pew-releases-a-new-study/Pew’s latest report, Writing, Technology, and Teens, is a must read for the community college crowd. According to the the study, 93% of teens (ages 12-17) write for their own purposes, usually in digital environments. When asked to name their motivations for writing, teens said that their personal
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Student Bloggers and the Pew Internet Paper
http://plethoratech.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ student-bloggers-and-pew-internet-pa…The Pew Internet and American Life Project just put out a paper a few days ago entitled "Writing, Technology, and Teens". (Thanks Gregg Festa for sending it to me.) Inside there is a lot of good data (obtained from phone surveys to students and parents) that talks about the kinds and amount of writing that students do.
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Pew Internet Releases Writing, Technology and Teens Report
http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ pew-internet-release…The state of writing among teens today is marked by an interesting paradox: While teens are heavily embedded in a tech-rich world and craft a significant amount of electronic text, they see a fundamental distinction between their electronic social communications and the more formal writing they do for school or for personal reasons.