Defining Social Behavior Outward: Some Thoughts on the New York Times Piece About Our Facebook Study
Published By S. Craig Watkins On February 3rd 2011. Under News, Research, Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Young Adults and Technology
The New York Times' Pamela Paul writes about our Facebook study in her Sunday bi-weekly column, Studied. Her piece, Does Facebook Make Someone Social Offline?, considers one of the main ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital in PC World
Published By S. Craig Watkins On January 19th 2011. Under Book, Mobile, News, Social Media, Social Networking Sites
Last year my editor in Boston notified me that Western Washington University had selected The Young and the Digital for its Western Reads program. I learned that all new incoming ... Read More
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Breaking the Ice: Why Low Performing Schools Need Digital Media-A Blog Post for the Huffington Post Education
Published By S. Craig Watkins On January 10th 2011. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, Social Media, Teens and Technology
Note: This piece also appears at the Huffington Post. When the social and digital media revolution gained momentum at the dawn of the new millennium no one would have predicted that less ... Read More
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Got Facebook? A New Study Examines the World’s Biggest Social Network
Published By S. Craig Watkins On November 18th 2010. Under Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Young Adults and Technology
Earlier this year H. Erin Lee, a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, and I began combing through the data of a new national survey we conducted ... Read More
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Gurl Power: How the Young and the Digital Are Remaking the Pop Music Landscape
Published By S. Craig Watkins On September 23rd 2010. Under Digital Music, News, Teens and Technology
This week NPR's Morning Edition ran an interesting feature on Lukasz Gottwald (you can listen here). Odds are you do not know who he is but if you listen to ... Read More
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Digital Media and Learning Conference: Designing Learning Futures 2011
Published By S. Craig Watkins On September 15th 2010. Under Uncategorized
This week the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at the University of California at Irvine announced the Second Annual Digital Media and Learning Conference, Designing Learning Futures 2011. Here is ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital on NPR’s Tell Me More-With Michel Martin
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 23rd 2010. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Teens and Technology, Uncategorized
This week the NPR program Tell Me More- with Michel Martin did a two-part segment titled, What Digital Divide? The stories were a response to the growing evidence that black ... Read More
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Understanding the Mobile Lives of Black and Latino Youth
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 12th 2010. Under Digital Divides, Mobile, News, Social Media, Teens and Technology
Over the last few weeks I've been speaking with various researchers, journalists, and industry about some of the remarkable shifts that are happening in the mobile space. While much of ... Read More
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Twitterball II: LeBron James, Social Media and the New Culture of Pro Sport
Published By S. Craig Watkins On July 9th 2010. Under News, Social Media, Sports and Social Media, Young Adults and Technology
In the middle of the biggest decision of his young professional life LeBron James showed up on Twitter of all places. During the week James had invited his friend, New ... Read More
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The Young and the Digital: The London Review of Books
Published By S. Craig Watkins On June 14th 2010. Under Book, News, Social Media, Social Networking Sites
The Young and the Digital is part of a group of books reviewed by Harvard's Stephen Burt in the London Review of Books. Here's an excerpt from what is ... Read More
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