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TeenSites.com: A Field Guide to the New Digital Landscape

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From Sales Pitches to Civics Lessons: Something for Everyone Online
CME Report Explores the Online World of Teens

A 2001 report from the Center for Media Education, provided here as background to work produced by Kathryn Montgomery after coming to American University and CSM (see "Youth as E-Citizens"), surveys the burgeoning digital media culture directed at—and in some cases created by—teens.

This report surveys the burgeoning new media culture directed at—and in some cases created by—teens. TeenSites.com-A Field Guide to the New Digital Landscape examines the uniquely interactive nature of the new media, and explores the ways in which teens are at once shaping and being shaped by the electronic culture that surrounds them.

1. Cover & Table of Contents (99 KB)
2. Executive Summary (193 KB)
3. Introduction (161 KB)
4. Commercial Culture Online (5.4 MB)
5. The Alternative Internet: A Noncommercial and Civic Web Culture for Teens (2.7 MB)
6. New Trends and Future Directions (515 KB)
7. Conclusion & Recommendations (126 KB)
8. Endnotes & Back Cover (260 KB)

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