Podcasts about american life project

Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of “networked individualism” liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the “triple revolution” that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals. Lee Rainie is Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and former managing editor of U.S. News and World Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of “networked individualism” liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the “triple revolution” that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals. Lee Rainie is Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and former managing editor of U.S. News and World Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of “networked individualism” liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the “triple revolution” that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals. Lee Rainie is Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and former managing editor of U.S. News and World Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of “networked individualism” liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the “triple revolution” that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals. Lee Rainie is Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and former managing editor of U.S. News and World Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology

Surveys have shown that 95% of text messages sent are read within just a few minutes of receipt while about 30% of consumers with mobile phones interact with brands via text messages. As marketing continues to become a highly dynamic area for many businesses, whether startups or established, innovative promotional strategies continue to prove to be suitable for the modern business environment in which competition only grows stiffer. Text messaging was originally intended for normal communication, but today, it has emerged as one of the most effective marketing techniques. Is it really the marketing option with a future? The mobile market grows larger by the day, with over 7 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide (according to statistics by the International Telecommunication Union). This presents a tremendous amount of opportunity to marketers looking for new avenues of connecting with this ever growing list of mobile phone subscribers. Geo location and mobile tagging have come up to help discern the behavior of the mobile consumer in order to deliver more relevant marketing content to them. By the end of 2012, about 1.08 billion of the mobile phones that were in use were smartphones. About 3.05 million of these devices were SMS-enabled. The number, no doubt, has leaped significantly since then. Simple observations indicate that the way in which people use mobile phones (especially smartphones) continues to open up new possibilities. Today, there are millions of apps on various app stores. These range from those that can turn a simple smartphone into a ruler to those that will turn the devices into advertisement boards. Finding out just how much people have come to rely on their phones is amazing in and of itself. According to a July 2012 study by Pew Internet and American Life Project, about 86% of mobile internet users use their mobile devices while watching TV. Long gone are the days when coupons could only be found in printed newspapers. Today, text message marketing has made coupons and coupon codes to be taken by storm among all ranges of consumers with access to mobile phones. Taco Bell ran a campaign of its own dubbed RefreshIt that ended up proving that consumers can be hooked to a brand even while on the move, thanks to the use of text message subscriptions to access coupon codes on various products and service promotions. The aim of marketing is to expose existing and prospective customers to your product, cause or service. Text message marketing presents an opportunity to keep customers engaged to a brand they like without having them tethered, a practice that has proven to swell sales for many companies. Email marketing, television commercials and many other traditional and semi-traditional marketing techniques are still popular, but their future cannot be compared to that of text message marketing. especially with projections showing that mobile internet usage is expected to overtake desktop internet usage by 2014.

Seventy percent of the U.S. adult population in 2007 was online and 80 percent of them say they have searched for health information. But data from two studies—the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2008 and HINTS, a 2005 NIH research project focused on use of the Internet for cancer information—paint a radically different story of Internet health information access among the haves and have-nots. Twenty-five percent of Americans whose household incomes are $20,000 a year or less had broadband at home in 2008—down from 28 percent in 2007. Forty-three percent of African Americans reported having home broadband, compared with 57 percent of whites and 56 percent of English-speaking Hispanics. (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/fall09digitaldivide/) Contact: cjoujoute@outlook.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/untangle/support

The teenage brain is under major reconstruction during the teenage years. There is a window of opportunity to "use it or lose it." What this means is that the brain is doing some major pruning of brain cells. If you use these brain cells these neural connections will stay. Experience is what causes these neurons to fire and wire together. If you don't use them you will lose them and they will wither away. The neurons that get used repeatedly by experience are wired together into the brain's electrical networks. If the digital world is not monitored it can be a barrier to your daughter "using it." It's not that the digital world is bad. There are many benefits.The Internet is a great resource for learning, sharing information, connecting with people, and being entertained. But how things have changed since we were in high school.The new digital world catches us off guard, because it's unfamiliar territory. When I was in High School I had a phone with a telephone cord. I could only talk in the kitchen or in my parents' bedroom. There was some built in accountability, but no more. With the ever-changing apps, instant messaging, texting, skyping, on cell phones, ipad's, and laptops; monitoring your teen can feel like an uphill battle. Shelly is a therapist and has a daughter who is in middle school. Shelly came to my office extremely upset. She had just gotten her phone bill. Her 7th grade daughter had sent three thousand texts in the past month and most of them were from midnight to 4am on school nights. Shelly was shocked, hurt and felt extremely betrayed. Shelly was unaware and unprepared. She didn't think about the addictive side of technology. She didn't consider her daughter's undeveloped PFC, and the dopamine thrill of connecting with boys at night. Once Shelly was educated about teens and cell phones, she realized it wasn't personal. Shelly intervened and put the brakes on, and took her daughter's cell phone at night. There are three big reasons you can "lose it" with electronics, which is too much screen time, inappropriate content, and chronic distraction. Dr. David Walsh in his book Smart Parenting, Smarter Kidsstates, "Today the average school-aged kid spends more than fifty-three hoursa week watching television, playing video games, or using the computer." Most teens don't get this much sleep in a week. A huge problem with this amount of screen time is that it is empty brain calories.They are not investing their attention, skills, and abilities in real life. This especially impacts their relationships. Many moms have complained that when their daughter has a friend spend the night that they barely talk to each other. They can be in the same room texting other friends, or even each other. As shocking as this is to us, in 2010 Pew Internet & American Life Project found that face-to-face communication fell behind texting as teen's favorite way of communicating with friends. This causes big problems for brain development. This is a critical time for the teenage brain to wire networks for communication skills, empathic listening and the ability to interpret and respond to non-verbal cues. All of these skills take practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

http://www.einstein.yu.edu - Susannah Fox, associate director of digital strategy at the Pew Internet & American Life Project, explains why she believes online networks among and between patients, caregivers and physicians are the way of the future. This talk was given at Einstein and is part of faculty development associated with a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation grant that Einstein was awarded in 2012 to promote online professionalism among faculty and students. See accompanying release: http://www.einstein.yu.edu/news/releases/830/einstein-faculty-receive-grant-to-teach-social-media-professionalism-in-medicine/

"How Do [They] Even Do That?": How Today's Technology is Shaping Tomorrow's Students Amanda Lenhart directs the Pew Internet & American Life Project's research on teens, children and families. Her other research interests include education, gaming, and networked communication tools like mobile phones, social networks, blogging and microblogging. For her research about and knowledge of youth and their use of technology, Ms. Lenhart has testified before a congressional subcommittee, the FTC and the U.S. States' Attorneys General, and presented her work at numerous academic and non-academic conferences and briefings as well as to the media

A Pew Internet & American Life Project poll shows both Republican and Democrat voters are turning to their mobile phones for election information. Larry Greenemeier reports

Experts on media and technology examined how Millennials are seeking, sharing and creating information. Panelists were: Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research New England and Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Dylan Casey, product manager, Google; Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project; and Tom Rosenstiel, director, Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Technology Leads Park Visitors Into Trouble, Social Networking For Seniors, and Apple's Announcements. Show Notes 1. Technology Leads Park Visitors Into Trouble The National Park Service is experiencing a massive increase in search and rescue calls. Park visitors believe technology, such as cell phones and GPS devices, can be used anytime and without consequence. Visitors are placing themselves in dangerous situations with the assumption that technology will “save” them. We discuss some of the stories in Episode 55. 2. Social Networking Use Surging For Seniors The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project performed a study on the growth patterns associated with social networking and seniors. The study found that social networking has almost doubled among this population, growing from 22% to 42% over the past year. 3.Apple's Announcements Steve and Mikee provide a rundown of Apple's announcements on Wednesday. With changes to iPods, Apple TV, and iTunes, what did Mikee and Steve like and dislike about the updated products? As expected, Mikee is honest with his assessment of Apple and what it does (or doesn't) do for him.

Chatting with Amanda Lenhart, one of the authors of an exciting new Pew Internet & American Life Project report titled, Teens, Video Games and Civics. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2008/10/mediasnackers-podcast122-rezed-podcast17/

Internet Safety Town Hall Meeting, held Monday, June 30, 2008 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Conference Center in San Antonio, Texas. Panelists included: Anastasia Goodstein, author of Totally Wired; Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist with the Pew Internet and American Life Project; Jeanne Biddle, director of technology with Scott County Schools in Kentucky and ISTE board member; Julie Evans, executive director of Project Tomorrow; and Jake Young, a high school senior from Spring, Texas

Click on the link above to listen to the eight-minute newscast, anytime.Gen Y likes us. Pew Internet & American Life Project director tells LibVibe - and you - about their new reportWriter says he uses his library science degree in an unusual full time jobStories reported:Information Searches that Solve Problems (interview, article, report); Late library books can take toll on credit scores; Haven't paid library fines? You better pay up; Library sacks curator for keeping historic book in car trunk (1, 2, 3); Suds vs. duds (interview, article).Save $2 on any order of books, movies or music.Use promo code HAPPY2008 through 1/12/08!