The Pew Internet Project

• an initiative of the Pew Research Center

• a nonprofit “fact tank”

• Pew Internet Research explores the impact of the internet on:

• children,
• families,
• communities,
• the work place,
• schools,
• health care,
• civic/political life.

• The Project is nonpartisan and takes no position on policy issues.

One area of their research called The Pew Internet & American Life Project examines how the Internet affects the groups where we live and work.

Many subtopics have been researched.  Each subtopic has:

•a short summary with links to the full report

•the questionaires used to collect the data. 

Here are some of the subtopics you can explore:

Writing, Technology and Teens

Teens and Social Media

Teens, Video Games and Civics

Digital Footprints

Parent and Teen Internet Use

Networked Families

Teens and Online Stranger Contact

Cyberbullying

At the National Educational Computing Conference July 2008

Amanda Lenhart presented this powerpoint about Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Cyberbullying

NECC Internet Safety Town Hall 063008nn.ppt