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I can totally see how the Internet could dent a child's budding social skills. I don't have a whole lot of social skill to begin with, but what little I did have has been mostly eaten by my computer, I'm sure. I find myself sometimes yearning for voicemail over a person, an email over a face-to-face meeting. Why should it be any different for my kid?

The study found young people add media skills, knowledge and "learn basic social and technical skills that they need to fully participate in contemporary society".

everything being filtered by a small, elite and typically white male cadre of journalists working for one of only three broadcast networks or one or two local newspapers

Today’s news consumers can also be producers thanks to blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasting and microblogs like Twitter

harder to come by trusted sources for news and information

With the avoidance of face and verbal cues, social risk is largely averted, while communication (for the keyboard-literate) is enhanced and the internet may function as a venue for avoiding intimacy."

"... when kids are online, they're reading, thinking, analyzing, criticizing and authenticating - composing their thoughts. Kids use computers for activities that go hand-in-hand with our understanding of what constitutes a traditional childhood. They use the technology to play, learn, communicate and form relationships as children always have. Development is enhanced in an interactive world