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Protecting Teens on the Internet
Gaps & Agreement in Perception Between Parents and Children
Presentation to the Casey Journalism Center on Children & Families Conference “The New Generation Gap: Barriers and
Breakthroughs”Amanda Lenhart
March 16, 2005, College Park, MD
Overview
• Pew Internet at the beginning of a multi-stage release of reports on teens 12-17 and the Internet
• Upcoming: Protection of Youth Online
• Other questions we’re analyzing for future releases
Methodology
• Interviewed 1100 parent-child pairs via telephone
• Sample pulled from RDD samples
• Lengthy questionnaire covering a variety of topics
• focus groups
Teen Internet Basics
• 87% of teens 12-17 online
• 80% of parents online
• 66% of all Americans online
• Of 13% who don’t go online, 1 in 10 say that fears, bad experiences, or their parents keep them offline
• Not major reasons
• 47% of offline teens once went online
Protecting Teens Online
• Filtering—54% of families filter
• Public computing location—73%
• House internet rules—64%
• 62% of parents….33% of teens say they/their parents check up on teens after they go online
• Filtering up, others stable
Demographic Differences
• Younger parents & parents of younger teens are more likely to filter/monitor
• African-American and Hispanic parents generally report greater levels of all rules/observational behavior
• Online parents monitor more
Online Behavior: Where Parents and Teens Agree
• 81% of parents and 79% of teens agree that kids are not as careful as they should be about the information they give out online
• 62% of parents and 62% of teens agree that kids do things online that they wouldn’t want their parents to know about
• Overall, most parents believe that the internet is a good thing for their children
Forthcoming Research
• Blogging and content creation
• Intellectual property, copyright & music online
• Cell phones, IM/texting and wireless internet use
• Teens and the digital divide
Story Ideas
• Kids as content creators
• Instant messaging is supplanting email
• Cell phone as “Swiss Army Knife”
• Changing Media Ecology of Children—Less enslaved to “appointment” media?
• Culture of cut ‘n’ paste learning
Amanda LenhartResearch Specialist
alenhart@pewinternet.org(202) 419-4514
http://www.pewinternet.org
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