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Time Spent Online Important for Teens

Posted on 05. Mar, 2009 by Steve Borsch in All Posts, Social Media and Vision

Since its release in November, the discussions within the blogosphere about this new study—and people on Twitter referencing it—has been a major driver of online conversation due to it being a key validation of the social media space, especially where it relates to the generation we’re raising, those who are poised to run our world.

Every intuition and knowing many of us have had—that one, huge benefit to TEL.A.VISION is empowering kids to become more new media literate and better able to communicate their individual visions—means that the release of this study and its findings will play a role as an informational milestone and one we thought you’d find intriguing as we did.

Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives.

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