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May 1, 2013Carolyn Miller, Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie, Kristen Purcell
Parents of minor children have a special relationship with libraries. Most believe libraries are very important for their children and provide extra resources that are not available at home.
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Parents frequently lead other adults in adoption of new technologies and applications. Families use and repurpose technology in ways that enhance family life even as innovations present new challenges.
Suzanne Choney, Digital Life on Today
Nov 21, 2012
Parents of online teens are concerned about what exactly their kids do online, but they're also wary of how their children are being tracked by advertisers, according to a new report. The findings come at a time when the Federal Trade Commission i...
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Somini Sengupta, New York Times
Nov 20, 2012
The Pew Internet Center recently asked that especially anxious cohort of Americans — parents of teenagers who use the Internet — if they were concerned that their child’s online activities “might affect their future academic or employment opportuniti...
Nov 20, 2012Mary Madden, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, Amanda Lenhart, Maeve Duggan
Parents have a range of concerns about how their children’s online activities might affect their privacy and many have taken steps to monitor their children and encourage online safety
May 15, 2012Amanda Lenhart
Parents are enthusiastic downloaders of all kinds of apps, particularly apps for children.
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Feb 18, 2012Lee Rainie
How the Millennials Generation consumes, produces, and shares information
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Parents' Perspective
Dec 7, 2011
Director Lee Rainie was interviewed on the "Parents' Perspective" podcast (#494) about how today's "plugged-in teens" manage their reputations online--and how their families are parenting in this new digital environment.
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Associated Press
Nov 9, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Despite all the worries about online bullying, more than two-thirds of teenagers on social-networking sites say their peers are mostly kind, a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds. Still, 15 percent say t...
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The parents of teenagers are steeped in technology and are increasingly involved with their kids’ lives in online environments.
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Molly Baker, Wall Street Journal
May 9, 2011
[...] Certainly, it's nothing new that kids are plugging in and staying connected. But what is new is that it may be a grandparent on the other end of that virtual tin can—and that technology is bridging the vast age and distance gap that has long di...
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Jan Hoffman, New York Times
Dec 4, 2010
[...] Last April in an omnibus review of studies addressing youth, privacy and reputation, a report by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard noted that parents who checked their children’s online communications were seen as “controll...
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.