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Mobile rules in the US now too

September 23, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Vintage phones

It's now clear that, where Americans' use of digital media is concerned, mobile rules. "The days of desktop dominance are over," declares top digital market researcher comScore in its latest mobile app report. Smartphones and tablets represent 60% of Americans' digital media time, and "the fuel driving mobile’s relentless growth is primarily app usage, which alone makes up a majority of total … [Read more...] about Mobile rules in the US now too

Filed Under: mobile, Research, texting Tagged With: apps, cellphones, comScore, GSMA, mobile market research, mobile phones, Nielsen, Pew, PewGlobal, Social Media

Readers want video too

January 5, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

Just another sign of how our world and use of media are changing, and how "video-fied" we're all getting: Ad Age's subhead for its review of last year's top "print" apps was "App Revenue Suggests Readers Want 'Bells and Whistles' Like Video and Interactivity." To make articles more "accessible" to readers, magazine designers used to call for lots of "entry points" for readers – and not just "eye … [Read more...] about Readers want video too

Filed Under: mobile, Social Media, video Tagged With: apps, comScore, digital media, digital video, online video

Growth in all facets of US mobile use

November 7, 2011 By Anne 2 Comments

For US mobile phone users 13+, usage went up just over the past summer in all categories comScore measures. The categories are sending texts (71.1%, up 1.5%), using a browser (42.9%, up 2.8%), downloading apps (39.5%, up 3%), accessing a social network site or blog (29.1%, up 2.4%), playing games (26.9%, up 1.9%), and listening to music (19%, up 1.9%). So even in the US, where most Internet users … [Read more...] about Growth in all facets of US mobile use

Filed Under: mobile, Social Media Tagged With: cellphones, comScore, mobile technology, social media research

US phone-based social media use growing fast

October 26, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

Social networking is rapidly getting more mobile in the US too. I say "too," because one of my biggest takeaways from attending an international conference in Kenya this fall was that 3G cellphones (what we call "feature phones") are and will increasingly be the typical way most East Africans access Facebook, Skype, Twitter, etc. But even here with our ubiquitous computer use, mobile social media … [Read more...] about US phone-based social media use growing fast

Filed Under: mobile, Research, Social Media Tagged With: comScore, mobile apps, mobile social networking, Social Media

Facebook passes up Orkut in India

September 1, 2010 By Anne 1 Comment

Though Twitter's experiencing the fastest growth in India, Facebook moved passed Google's Orkut into the No. 1 slot for social networking there, with 20.9 million visitors in July, a 179% increase over July 2009, reports IBN Live in India, citing comScore findings. Twitter grew 239% year over year, while Orkut grew just 16% in India this past year. According to IBN Live, "more than 33 million … [Read more...] about Facebook passes up Orkut in India

Filed Under: Social Media, social networking Tagged With: comScore, Facebook, Orkut, social networking, twitter

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Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
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The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
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Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
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Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
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"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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