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The National Institutes of Health and a nonprofit group, Common Sense Media, have another reason for President-elect Barack Obama to keep urging parents to “turn off the TV.”In what researchers call the first report of its kind, a review of 173 studies about the effects of media consumption on children asserts that a strong correlation exists between greater exposure & adverse health outcomes. -
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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. -
1voteThe ease of being in touch has created a phenomenon that Rainie calls "love taps," in which couples exchange hellos and touch base with a regularity that did not exist 10 years ago...another family phenomenon: huddling around a screen to watch YouTube videos together or other Internet entertainment, a kind of "virtual hearth," Rainie said.
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1voteHow the Internet affects the groups where we live and work, including how they grow and change, their social dynamics, and the activities we do there.
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1voteChildren like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. Some literacy experts say that reading itself should be redefined. Interpreting videos or pictures, they say, may be as important a skill as analyzing a novel or a poem.
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1vote...the vast majority of youth that we studied used networked technologies to reinforce more traditional markers of status and hierarchy. While there are certainly youth who engage in a variety of geeky practices, the vast majority of youth use tools like MySpace, Facebook, instant messaging, and mobile phones to socialize with peers from school, church, and activities.
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