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Suhaib Saqib

Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project - 1 views

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  • Suhaib Saqib on 12 Jan 12
     
    An academic research into the effect of media on teenagers. The two major research questions are: How are new media being integrated into youth practices and agendas? How do these practices change the dynamics of youth-adult negotiations over literacy, learning, and authoritative knowledge?
  • Suhaib Saqib on 12 Jan 12
     
    "Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today's youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-expression."
Suhaib Saqib

The Transition to Adulthood in the United States Over the Course of the 21st Century - 0 views

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20th century teenager transition to adulthood

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  • he age at which a person becomes an adult is inherently subjective
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    teenagers though the 20th century
Suhaib Saqib

Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social netwo... - 0 views

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  • Suhaib Saqib on 15 Nov 11
     
    The explosion in social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and Friendster is widely regarded as an exciting opportunity, especially for youth.Yet the public response tends to be one of puzzled dismay regarding a generation that, supposedly, has many friends but little sense of privacy and a narcissistic fascination with self-display.This article explores teenagers' practices of social networking in order to uncover the subtle connections between online opportunity and risk.While younger teenagers relish the opportunities to recreate continuously a highly-decorated, stylistically-elaborate identity, older teenagers favour a plain aesthetic that foregrounds their links to others, thus expressing a notion of identity lived through authentic relationships. The article further contrasts teenagers' graded conception of 'friends' with the binary classification of social networking sites, this being one of several means by which online privacy is shaped and undermined by the affordances of these sites.
Jessica Luong

Kids These Days: Study Exposes 'Generation Me' | Teen Happiness, Work Attitudes & Self ... - 0 views

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Teens generation attitudes egotism

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  • In the new study, Donnellan and his colleagues analyzed information collected on more than 477,000 high-school seniors from 1976 to 2006, which were divided into four-year time periods. The data came from the federally funded Monitoring the Future survey, which tracks the behaviors, attitudes and values of U.S. students every year.
  • "Compared with others your age around the country, how do you rate yourself on school ability?" and "How intelligent do you think you are compared with others your age?" Participants rated the items from 1 (far below average) to 7 (far above average). All participants gave an average score of about 4.9, with the scores from 1976 to 1980 (baby boomers) averaging 4.9, compared with those from the 2001-2006 group (Millennials) rating the questions at about 4.94.
  • "Kids today are like they were 30 years ago – they're trying to find their place in the world, they're trying to carve out an identity, and it can be difficult," Donnellan said. "But lots of research shows that the stereotypes of all groups are much more overdrawn than the reality."
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  • Rather than generational differences, Donnellan said research has shown age can be a big factor regarding happiness levels and other psychological variables.
  • Jessica Luong on 11 Jan 12
     
    LiveScience conducted a study regarding the teenagers today, and how they are deftly labelled "Generation Me". 
Jessica Luong

Teenagers Today: Lazy, Cynical, Selfish? Or Just Teenagers? | Parenting Squad - 0 views

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  • LiveScience reports that teens today are more cynical and less trusting of institutions than past generations, according to a new study.
  • The flip side of what has been dubbed “Generation Me,” is that young people are no more self-centered, and just as happy and satisfied, as their parents.
  • "We concluded that, more often than not, kids these days are about the same as they were back in the mid-1970s," said study researcher Brent Donnellan, associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University.
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  • High school students need this kind of involvement to get into good colleges. I hear stories from friends all over the country. Kids are doing so much more for their communities than we did a generation ago.
  • Previous studies have focused on the work ethics of people born between 1982 and 1999. These Millennials are said to value leisure time over work and to place a premium on rewards such as higher salaries and status. So they’d like to work less, earn more, and get some respect?
  • This new research, collected from almost half a million high-school seniors from 1976 to 2006, consisted of a series of questions about what researchers call “egotism measurements”, as well as inquiries about self-esteem. Students rated the following statements: Compared with others your age around the country, how do you rate yourself on school ability? How intelligent do you think you are compared with others your age? I take a positive attitude toward myself. On the whole I am satisfied with myself.
  • Researchers found almost no difference in self-esteem between the 1976-80 and 2001-06 generations.
  • "Kids today are like they were 30 years ago — they're trying to find their place in the world, they're trying to carve out an identity, and it can be difficult. But lots of research shows that the stereotypes of all groups are much more overdrawn than the reality. I worry about stereotyping entire generations of people, which by definition are incredibly large and heterogeneous groups of people, with labels.  Within any birth cohort there is an incredible amount of variation.”
  • Maybe, just maybe, the world has changed, and our children are reacting to the changes.
  • Jessica Luong on 11 Jan 12
     
    Some information regarding studies that have been done that have proven that teenagers of today are more cynical and less trusting. In addition, they also do a lot more community service, and have high self-esteem. 
Jessica Luong

Teenagers and technology: 'I'd rather give up my kidney than my phone' | Life and style... - 2 views

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  • "I'd rather," deadpans Philippa Grogan, 16, "give up, like, a kidney than my phone.
  • Cameron Kirk, 14, reckons he spends "an hour, hour-and-a-half on school days" hanging out with his 450-odd Facebook friends; maybe twice that at weekends. "It's actually very practical if you forget what that day's homework is. Unfortunately, one of my best friends doesn't have Facebook. But it's OK; we talk on our PlayStations."
  • Emily Hooley, 16, recalls a Very Dark Moment: "We went to Wales for a week at half term to revise. There was no mobile, no TV, no broadband. We had to drive into town just to get a signal. It was really hard, knowing people were texting you, writing on your Wall, and you couldn't respond. Loads of my friends said they'd just never do that."
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  • Pew Internet & American Life Project has been the world's largest and most authoritative provider of data on the internet's impact on the lives of 21st-century citizens. Since 2007, it has been chronicling the use teenagers make of the net, in particular their mass adoption of social networking sites. It has been studying the way teens use mobile phones, including text messages, since 2006.
  • First, 75% of all teenagers (and 58% of 12-year-olds) now have a mobile phone. Almost 90% of phone-owning teens send and receive texts, most of them daily. Half send 50 or more texts a day; one in three send 100. In fact, in barely four years, texting has established itself as comfortably "the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and their friends".
  • More than 80% of phone-owning teens also use them to take pictures (and 64% to share those pictures with others). Sixty per cent listen to music on them, 46% play games, 32% swap videos and 23% access social networking sites. The mobile phone, in short, is now "the favoured communication hub for the majority of teens".
  • 73% use social networking sites, mostly Facebook – 50% more than three years ago. Digital communication is not just prevalent in teenagers' lives. It IS teenagers' lives.
  • Simply, these technologies meet teens' developmental needs," she says. "Mobile phones and social networking sites make the things teens have always done – defining their own identity, establishing themselves as independent of their parents, looking cool, impressing members of the opposite sex – a whole lot easier."
  • contemporary communications tools" help resolve one of the fundamental conflicts that rages within every adolescent. Adolescence, she says, is characterised by "an enhanced need for self-presentation, or communicating your identity to others, and also self-disclosure – discussing intimate topics. Both are essential in developing teenagers' identities, allowing them to validate their opinions and determine the appropriateness of their attitudes and behaviours."
  • So the big plus of texting, instant messaging and social networking is that it allows the crucial identity-establishing behaviour, without the accompanying embarrassment. "These technologies give their users a sense of increased controllability," Valkenburg says. "That, in turn, allows them to feel secure about their communication, and thus freer in their interpersonal relations."
  • Philippa reckons she sends "probably about 30" text messages every day, and receives as many. "They're about meeting up – where are you, see you in 10, that kind of thing,"
  • (Boredom appears to be the key factor in the initiation of many teen communications.)
  • Like most of her peers, Philippa wouldn't dream of using her phone to actually phone anyone, except perhaps her parents – to placate them if she's not where she should be, or ask them to come and pick her up if she is. Calls are expensive, and you can't make them in class (you shouldn't text in class either, but "lots of people do").
  • Facebook rush-hour is straight after school, and around nine or 10 in the evening. "You can have about 10 chats open at a time, then it gets a bit slow and you have to start deleting people," Philippa says. The topics? "General banter, light-hearted abuse. Lots of talk about parties and about photos of parties."
  • It's quite easy, she thinks, for people to feel "belittled, isolated" on Facebook.
  • There are other downsides. Following huge recent publicity, teens are increasingly aware of the dangers of online predators. "Privacy's a real issue," says Emily. "I get 'friend' requests from people I don't know and have never heard of; I ignore them. I have a private profile. I'm very careful about that."
  • A 2009 survey found up to 45% of US companies are now checking job applicants' activity on social networking sites, and 35% reported rejecting people because of what they found. Universities and colleges, similarly, are starting to look online. "You need to be careful," says Cameron Kirk, astute and aware even at 14. "Stuff can very easily get misunderstood."
  • research [by Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research] has revealed a class distinction in many teens' attitudes to online privacy. "Teens from college-focused, upper-middle-class familes tend to be much more aware of their online profiles, what they say about them, future consequences for jobs and education," she says. "With others, there's a tendency to share as much as they can, because that's their chance for fame, their possibility of a ticket out."
  • The question that concerns most parents, though, is whether such an unprecedented, near-immeasurable surge in non face-to-face communication is somehow changing our teenagers – diminishing their ability to conduct more traditional relationships, turning them into screen-enslaved, socially challenged adults.
  • "Face to face is so much clearer," he says. "Facebook and instant messaging are such detached forms of communication. It's so easy to be misinterpreted, or to misinterpret what someone says. It's terribly easy to say really horrible things.
Jessica Luong

Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.: What Is Twitter Doing to Teen Brains? - 1 views

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  • Last year, the International Center for Media & the Public Affairs (ICMPA) teamed up with the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change to conduct a study called Unplugged. They got around 1,000 university students from 10 countries over five continents to go 24 hours without media. No television, no radio, no Internet, no cell phones. Students came from Mexico, Uganda, Lebanon, the United States, Chile, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, China, Argentina and Slovakia. What resulted was a diverse group reporting remarkably uniform responses to this exercise in 21st century sensory deprivation.
  • A majority of students regardless of country couldn't successfully unplug for 24 hours. Either they cheated on their own or found it impossible to avoid the atmospheric nature of media. Students reported feeling depressed, anxious, lonely, bored and sad without technology in general. In particular, they were lost without their cell phones, which function as both "Swiss Army knife and security blanket" for this digital generation.
  • Students said they had neither the time nor interest to follow up on news that didn't impact them because the sheer flood of information was so great. They admitted they are headline skimmers, rarely diving below the surface into deeper informational or evaluative waters unless somehow pinged personally.
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  • Headline skimming instead of analytic deepwater diving might just have an affect on brain development, especially in teenagers.
  • "Maturation does not stop at age 10, but continues into the teen years and even the 20's," says Dr. Jay Giedd, a neuroscientist with the National Institute of Mental Health in a "Newsweek" article on the teenage brain. In a PBS interview, Dr. Giedd explained the brain has a "use it or lose it" function where neural connections are concerned. "So, if a teen is doing music or sports or academics, those are the cells and connections that will be hard-wired. If they're lying on the couch or playing video games or watching MTV, those are the cells and connections that are going [to] survive."
  • The students in this study knew a lot about technology, but they had forgotten what it's like to plan ahead and organize your day. They'd forgotten the simple pleasures of taking a walk, in silence with just yourself, or with actual people by your side, talking not texting. They had forgotten how to fill up time without the constant white-noise of technology and some discovered just how lonely their lives really were.
  • Highlight No. 3 in this study was "Students reported that media -- especially their mobile phones -- have literally become an extension of themselves. Going without media, therefore, made it seem like they had lost a part of themselves." I understand there are important connections being made through all of this technology. I just hope the most important, albeit complex and complicated connection there is -- the one to self -- doesn't get pruned in the process.
  • Jessica Luong on 14 Nov 11
     
    Article discussing the impact of technology on teenagers today. 
Alan Nguyen

20th century teens - CNET News - 0 views

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  • The information age doesn't deliver the same punch. Technological change
  • may be accelerating, but we're going from 60 to 90, rather than from zero to 60.
  • And, of course, the inevitable questions about the Gap.
  • Alan Nguyen on 11 Jan 12
     
    Definition of the 20th century teenagers
Kevin Mao

The Family Room - 1980s teen vs 2010 teen - 1 views

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  • Kevin Mao on 16 Nov 11
     
    A comparison between 1980s teens and 2010 teens. There aren't any references, but it can be used as a primer to the different teen cultures and provide specific topics to research more in depth.
Alan Nguyen

JSTOR: Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Nov., 2000), pp. 896-910 - 1 views

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Kevin Mao

1950s Teenagers - 0 views

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    Description of life of teens in 1950s.
Jessica Luong

Gaming: Teenagers and Socializing in the 21st Century - Page 2 | MedIndia - 0 views

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  • "Three quarters of teens actually play these games with other people, whether online or in person," she said.
  • She also claimed that even if teens play games every day, it won't impact their social lives. .contentblue15{ font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:15px;color:#0066cc;line-height:20px;} .ta13blue {font-family: arial;font-size: 13px;color: #0066cc;} .relatedlink ul { margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; clear: both; padding-left: 20px; list-style-type: square; color: #9E9E9E; padding-top: 3px; } ul { list-style-image: url("http://medindia.net/images/square.gif"); font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; } Related Links Video Games can Ensure That Your Child Stays Fit Videogames Does Not Turn Boys into Criminals Report Says Millions of Young Chinese Addicted to 'unhealthy' Internet Games No Kidding, All Gizmos and No Play Makes Jack A Super-Dull Boy! "People who game on a daily basis are just as likely to talk on the phone, to email, to spend time with a friend face to face outside of school as kids who play games less," she said. On the flipside, those teenagers who were forced to confront problems in virtual communities, had a tendency to raise money for charity, volunteer, stay informed about political issues, persuade others to vote or march in a protest or demonstration.
  • Jessica Luong on 14 Nov 11
     
    News that although engrossed into video games, have their unique ways of forming social bonds. 
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