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Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value. -
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Residents of Westchester, the neighborhood surrounding Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, say microblogging services like Twitter are not only allowing students to find out where their classmates are partying, but also when the gatherings are about to be shut down by the police. -
1voteJuicyCampus, the controversial site that lets students post totally anonymous (and often malicious) comments about their college classmates, has launched a new version of its site and opened support to over 185 new campuses, with 500 expected by the end of the month. JuicyCampus is essentially a public, anonymous bulletin board that encourages users to gossip about eachother, often referring to their targets by their full names.
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1voteI know a girl who asked a boy to be her boyfriend via Facebook before they had even discussed the matter face-to-face. It was Gen Y's version of the omnipresent grade school love letter that read: "I like you. Do you like me? Check yes or no."
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1voteThe Trolls Among Us: Weev (not, of course, his real name) is part of a growing Internet subculture with a fluid morality and a disdain for pretty much everyone else online.
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1voteWeb designer Sean Tevis has raised more than $96,000 from nearly 6,000 people — most of whom aren?t from Kansas — in his bid to unseat Kansas state Rep. Arlen Siegfried.
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1voteYet even as the police tightened security before the Games, the power of new information technologies to chip away at the official line was still on display. In a poor county in Guizhou Province in the south, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances, and rumors of police malfeasance and a cover-up spread widely on the Internet, prompting public protests to demand a new investigation.
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