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Cassell, Justine & Cramer, Meg ((in press))
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Examines the telegraph, telephone, Internet, and social networking sites in order to demonstrate that the current panic over girls’ vulnerability online is not new.
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book, internet use, harassment, gender stereotypes, MMO
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291 parents of urban K-6 students were surveyed about their children’s home access to and use of educational software and the Internet.
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journal, academia, elementary school, internet use, family dynamics
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A phone survey of 1,102 young persons in the United States aged 12 to 17 conducted by Pew Internet and American Life Project in order to explore the link between video games and civic engagement.
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survey, report, high school, player demographics, game genres, digital divide, parents and gaming , gaming social context, co play, family dynamics, civic engagement, learning, Internet use
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Data from telephone interviews of 1,100 teens ages 12-17 and their parents and four focus groups with a total of 38 high school and middle school students was analyzed in order to analyze teen’s media use regarding content creation and consumption.
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survey, high school, internet use, academia, report
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The book examined many influences contributing to the gender gap in computing through interviews with 100 male and female computer science students at Carnegie Mellon University over four years.
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book, IT careers, internet use, programming, gaming social context
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Examines media use among a nationally representative sample of more than 2,000 3rd through 12th graders who completed detailed questionnaires, including nearly 700 self-selected participants who also maintained seven-day media diaries.
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academia, case study, internet use, high school, television viewership,
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A study looked at gender differences in the use of computers.
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academia, case study, survey, IT Careers, adults younger, internet use, computer skills,
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A fact sheet that focuses on video games in relation to children and health.
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academia, report, survey, children, player demographics, violence, internet use, ethnicity
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A study of female players of The Sims and The Sims 2 between the ages of 17 and 59, through 23 face-to-face interviews and 34 email interviews.
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conference, article, The Sims, The Sims 2, motivations, what women want, computer skills, internet use, media literacy
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The prevalence, frequency, and psychosocial predictors of Internet and computer game use were assessed with 803 male and 788 female adolescents across 2 time periods, 21 months apart. At Time 1, participants were in the 9th or 10th grade; at Time 2, they were in the 11th or 12th grade.
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journal, psychology, academic achievement, high school, internet use,
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