A new report from PEW Internet illuminates some surprising trends about teens and social media. Of these findings:
- Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004.
- Girls continue to dominate written content creation with boys creating more video content
- Almost half (47%) of online teens posted photos where others can see them, and 89% of those teens who post photos say that people comment on the images at least “some of the time.”
- “There is a subset of teens who are super-communicators — teens who have a host of technology options for dealing with family and friends, including traditional landline phones, cell phones, texting, social network sites, instant messaging, and email. They represent about 28% of the entire teen population and they are more likely to be older girls.”
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As some of us funwall our way through the day, others are using social and participatory media to shape the future. One of these people is Social Signal’s Rob Cottingham who asks Can web2.0 change the world?
“It’s easy to get fixated on the shiny toys of the Web 2.0 world: the latest invitation-only beta of the hottest new collaborative technology using the coolest whatever. Nothing wrong with that; our natural affinity for cool and new helps provide a built-in audience for technological innovators.
But the bright glare of technological promise can obscure its social impact… and not just the negative effects that technology’s critics are fond of citing.
The social web holds enormous promise for social transformation. Alex recently posted about how you can help steer the web toward that promise, but it’s also worth asking: just what makes us think the social web could be so transformative?”
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Like I’ve said before, wired students need wired classrooms - and teachers. More evidence, courtesy of the students of Kansas State University and their wired professor Michael Wesch.Read more about the video here.
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One of the first groups I joined on Facebook was “Petition to get Facebook to drop the “is” from status updates.” This was back in July, when I begrudgingly opened an account.
While my friends provide this corporate datamine Facebook with life, heart and mind, the service doesn’t really give a lot back. As a “social” space Facebook is still very inhuman - from the Walmart aesthetic to the lack of user controls. The fact that Facebook doesn’t even allow commenting in their developer “blog” is an example of just how far removed this space is from established philosophies of web2.0 social and participatory media - namely, participation and choice.
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