Part of the reason for that is resources, |
That's just a reflection of a change in the online population. The typical user is no longer a young, white man, highly educated with lots of money. The Internet population is now more like America. |
The definition of dating has changed. Activities that people would have called dating in the 1950s, '60s and even the '70s, no longer seem like dates for modern daters. People today, especially young people, travel in groups and hang out in groups. They don't call it dating. |
The Pew actually allows respondents to decide themselves. I would say absolutely we're dealing with a term that is not particularly well-defined because blogging is a platform. Blogs can be so many different things to so many different people. The definition needs to be more about structure than content. |
The spectrum runs from the completely debauched, awful kind of stuff, to the most high quality, high tone stuff. |
There's a lot of experimenting and showing off going on. Eventually the better stuff will survive, and people doing it for a thrill will fade away. |
These teens were born into a digital world where expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each other and lots of strangers, |
They had a special kite-making program, so the kids got to make their own kites. All of the kids in my group were in to the experience, and they really wanted to show me their work and see what I thought of it, and to have them coming to me to seek that sort of validation showed me a glimpse of how important they are to me and potentially how important and connected I am to them. |
They had their moment in the tsunami coverage, when the BBC and other (established media) opened their websites to them. |
This is a pretty interesting and new passion for teens. Anybody who has thoughts or interesting things to say or a beef with the world can use this incredibly powerful publishing tool. |
We live in a media age. In many respects, it is more important for people to be known in the media culture than to make money in the media culture. |
What's changed is the consumer is much more anxious to get the material they want, when they want and on the device they want it on. |
When I saw these figures for the first time I wasn't sure we had it right. But the more I talk to people about the more I'm hearing what people are saying. |