Writing, Technology and Teens

By A. Lenhart, Sousan M. Arafeh, Aaron Smith. 2008

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Supportive Accountability: A Model for Providing Human Support to Enhance Adherence to eHealth Interventions (2011, background): “Indeed, American teenagers now spend almost as much time in text-based communication (text/chat) as they do in face-to-face and telephone communication, suggesting that these media can provide valued forms of communication [51].”
Writing for Whom? Cognition, Motivation, and a Writer's Audience (2010, background): “Teens said, in varying ways, that they wanted to be doing things that mattered socially, in their own lives, and had an impact” (Lenhart et al., 2008, p. 54).”
Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship in a Digital Age (2009, background): “Ninety percent of school-age youth use the Internet, with adolescents ages 12 to 17 representing the largest and fastest-growing group of users (DeBell & Chapman, 2006; Lenhart, Arafeh, Smith, & Macgill, 2008; Lenhart, Madden, & Hitlin, 2005).”
New Technology and Digital Worlds: Analyzing Evidence of Equity in Access, Use, and Outcomes (2010, background): “…on number of youth who use the Internet is provided by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which interviewed 700 parent–child pairs by telephone and found that 89% of youth aged 12–17 years use the Internet at home and 94% use it from any location (Lenhart, Arafeh, et al., 2008; see Table 5).”