Social Media

Slides about teen content creators, shown at The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media.

NPR’s Morning Edition story, "Patients Turn to Online Buddies for Help Healing," combined research and real-life examples, participatory medicine and health data rights.

Social media is proliferating, inside and outside the classroom. What have we learned and what is on the horizon?

The median age of a Twitter user is 31.

About one-in-five internet users now say they use Twitter or another similar service, up from 11% in April.

How the internet and mobile phones impact Americans' social networks.

Lee discusses the latest findings of the Pew Internet Project and why they suggest that libraries can play a role in people’s social networks in the future.

Connected patients spread new ideas, new treatments, and new ways of approaching a condition. Put them on your team.

How we measure Twitter and status updating (and an invitation to help us improve).

Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of inter...