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A music community where users contribute pieces of music and collaborate to build a finished product. The service includes real-time chat and free editing software.

Summary: American youth are awash in media. They have television sets in their bedrooms, personal computers in their family rooms, and digital music players and cell phones in their backpacks. They spend more time with media than any single activity other than sleeping, with the average American eight- to eighteen-year-old reporting more than six hours of daily media use. The growing phenomenon of "media multitasking"-using several media concurrently-multiplies that figure to eight and a half hours of media exposure daily. Donald Roberts and Ulla Foehr examine how both media use and media exposure vary with demographic factors such as age, race and ethnicity, and household socioeconomic status, and with psychosocial variables such as academic performance and personal adjustment. They note that media exposure begins early, increases until children begin school, drops off briefly, then climbs again to peak at almost eight hours daily among eleven- and twelve-year-olds. Television and video exposure is particularly high among African American youth. Media exposure is negatively related to indicators of socioeconomic status, but that relationship may be diminishing. Media exposure is positively related to risk-taking behaviors and is negatively related to personal adjustment and school performance. Roberts and Foehr also review evidence pointing to the existence of a digital divide-variations in access to personal computers and allied technologies by socioeconomic status and by race and ethnicity. The authors also examine how the recent emergence of digital media such as personal computers, video game consoles, and portable music players, as well as the media multitasking phenomenon they facilitate, has increased young people's exposure to media messages while leaving media use time largely unchanged. Newer media, they point out, are not displacing older media but are being used in concert with them. The authors note which young people are more or less li

Your Own Music on iTunes™ & More * Get 100% of the Royalties * Keep All Your Rights * All You Need is One Song to Get Started.

Your Own Music on iTunes™ & More * Get 100% of the Royalties * Keep All Your Rights * All You Need is One Song to Get Started.

A place to ask questions, voice opinions and find friends. This website is very interesting. People can go on and ask questions regarding religion or music, or religion vs music. They can upload videos and just get opinions on them, or comment/question the latest entertainment news. You have to join to post a question, answer, or comment, but you can browse through the site without joining.

Free music, uploaded by anyone, literally every song you can think of can be found here

Brings musicians together in a music project community.

You tube is a website where you can find uploaded videos ranging anywhere from concerts, music videos, tv shows, movies, and public uploads.

"Kompoz is a social workspace for musicians and songwriters. Got an idea for a song? Record a track. Upload it. Then invite others to add drums, bass, vocals or anything else!"

Eonline.com - The source for entertainment news, celebrity gossip and pictures. Get the latest fashion trends, TV, music and movie reviews, online video and more.

I spend a lot of time here, and would like to touch upon fanfic in my project. I'm looking to see if they have a specific disclaimer for the site. Individual authors cite the original author/s at the beginning/end of the new work.

This is an actual fanfiction website. There are categories from books, to TV shows, to movies, to musicals, and much more. There is even a section for crossover works. For example, the characters from Star Trek meet and have a story made out with the cast of NCIS.

music video by the Slumber Party Girls who actually use text lingo as the premise for the song "The Texting Song"

At first glance, Dirrty Glam resembles any trendy online magazine. It features famous faces like Lilly Allen and Sienna Miller on its cover, and combines fashion, film and music reviews with celebrity interviews. There is just one thing: Dirrty Glam's entire team, from editor in chief to public relations manager, is between 19 and 22 years old. The magazine, based in Paris, was started three years ago by Alie Suvelor, then 18 and now editor in chief. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A website that creates a radio station based on the sounds of an artist you like.

Video Search, Don-Wrege--Internet-Author-interviewed-by-Robert-Carl-Cohen This interview took place in 1997, and Wrege talks about many of the incredible changes that the internet has brought about. He discusses multimedia as it first began, then goes into discussing how he uses his column to give people information. Setting up links within his writing and allowing people to respond immediately are just a few things that are seen as average today, but in '97 seem almost ground-breaking because of the way Wrege and his interviewer discuss them.