ListersMight of interest to some of you. RgdsGrace From: Sandra Cortesi <scortesi@cyber.law.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:49 PM Subject: [berkmanfriends] Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice - new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the Berkman Center Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to share with you a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the Berkman Center on "Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice". The report - the fourth in a Pew/Berkman series with focus on youth privacy issues - combines a number of quotes taken from focus group interviews conducted by our Youth and Media team with Pew data from a nationally representative phone survey of parents and their teens, with a focus on the use of social networking sites. Many thanks to the Berkman team - especially Meredith Beaton and Paulina Haduong - and our collaborators at Pew - especially Amanda Lenhart and Mary Madden - for all the awesome and hard work on this report. We invite you to share this report widely with colleagues, students, friends, and others who may have an interest in this area, and we welcome your feedback and comments. Access the full report here. For more information about our "Youth and Online Privacy" project visit: http://youthandmedia.org/youth-and-online-privacy/ Many thanks, Sandra =============================================================== WASHINGTON – (August 15, 2013) – Many teens ages 12-17 report that they usually figure out how to manage content sharing and privacy settings on their own. Focus group interviews with teens suggest that for their day-to-day privacy management, teens are guided through their choices in the app or platform when they sign up, or find answers through their own searching and use of their preferred platform. At the same time, though, a nationally representative survey of teen internet users shows that, at some point, 70% of them have sought advice from someone else about how to manage their privacy online. When they do seek outside help, teens most often turn to friends, parents or other close family members. Access the full report here. About the Survey These findings are based on a nationally representative phone survey of 802 parents and their 802 teens ages 12-17. It was conducted between July 26 and September 30, 2012. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish and on landline and cell phones. The margin of error for the full sample is ± 4.5 percentage points. In collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, this report also includes insights and quotes gathered through a series of in-person focus group interviews about privacy and digital media, with a focus on social networking sites (in particular Facebook), conducted by the Berkman Center’s Youth and Media Project between February and April 2013. The team conducted 24 focus group interviews with a total of 156 participants across the greater Boston area, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara (California), and Greensboro (North Carolina). About the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the Internet and how their activities affect their lives. About the Berkman Center for Internet & Society The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to recognize, study, and engage the most difficult problems of the digital age and to share in their resolution in ways that advance the public interest. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates. Fundamental to its work is the study of the relationship between digital technologies and democratic values, including civic participation, access to knowledge, and the free flow of information. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu. =============================================================== Sandra CortesiDirector of the Youth and Media Project www.youthandmedia.orgBerkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youthandmediaberkmancenter Sign up for our mailing list: http://www.youthandmedia.org Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/YouthandMedia Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SandraCortesi ---------- You are subscribed to the BerkmanFriends discussion list. 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