Amanda Lenhart is currently the Head of Research at Common Sense Media . Prior to that, she has worked as a program director at the non-profit research group Data & Society, and as an associate director and researcher at the Pew Internet & American Life Project . She has published numerous articles and research reports, many of which focus on teenagers and their interactions with the internet and other new media technologies.
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56-920: A socialist America. It would not be until later in life that Nnamdi would embrace Marxist theory as the Panthers had. Nnamdi moved to Washington, D.C. in 1969 and enrolled in Federal City College , now the University of the District of Columbia . While attending the college, Nnamdi joined former members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to form the Center for Black Education. Nnamdi began his radio career in 1969 as an actor and director for children's plays that aired Sundays on Washington rhythm and blues radio station WOL . With
84-824: A discussion about Myspace . In 2007, Lenhart joined danah boyd , Michele Ybarra, and Dr. David Finkelhor for a luncheon panel for the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus on online youth victimization. CBS cited Lenhart and posted her 2008 discussion with Larry Magid on game-playing. Also in 2008, Lenhart participated in a roundtable at the Association of Internet Researchers ' Annual Conference in Copenhagen, including scholars Nancy Baym , Lewis Goodings, Malene Larsen, Raquel Recuero, Jan Schmidt, and Daniel Skog. In 2009, Lenhart appeared on
112-582: A fundamental disconnect between our online and offline identities. In the offline world, we don't present ourselves in the same way to all people in our lives - we show different sides of ourselves to our mothers, our friends, our employers. And even in the age of fine-grained privacy tools, those tools do not eliminate the complexity of figuring out how to best present oneself in a multi-use public space, particularly for those who have personal, professional and family contacts on these sites. In her presentation "Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Cyberbullying: What
140-526: A presentation given in 2009. Lenhart's research into gaming explores how teens and adults have incorporated gaming into their everyday lives. One report of her findings is "Teens, Video Games and Civics", published in 2008. According to Lenhart, "gaming is nearly universal among teens, with 97% of American youth 12 to 17 playing computer, console, portable or cell phone games." The study found that half of teens play games on any given day, usually for about an hour. The study also noted that "gaming isn’t just
168-539: A presentation on the recent findings of blogging as well as other types of technology as they relate to young adults and teenagers. In particular, Lenhart has discussed the decline of blogging. During a luncheon panel for the Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, Lenhart discussed changes in identity that she sees a related to emergent social networking practices. In other presentations such as "Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Cyberbullying: What
196-651: A video posted by ABC News, Lenhart discussed the findings from this study. In a presentation titled "Twitter and Status Updating: Demographics, Mobile Access and News Consumption" that was released in October 2009, Lenhart explored how Americans of various ages were utilizing Twitter and other social media. Web 2.0 and Twitter were also addressed in the Pew report on "Social Media and Young Adults" in 2010. Lenhart has contributed reports such as "Teens and Sexting" and an overview of mobile phone use termed "Teens and Mobile Phones Over
224-691: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Amanda Lenhart Lenhart graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a double major in English and Anthropology . Lenhart also holds a Master's degree in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University . Amanda Lenhart began working at the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 1999 and spent 16 years there, authoring numerous reports. Lenhart's research work focuses primarily on children, teens, and families. She often wrote about young people and how they interact with
252-697: Is the host of The Politics Hour on WAMU , and hosted “The Kojo Nnamdi Show” and Evening Exchange broadcast on WHUT-TV from 1985 to 2011. Nnamdi was born Rex Orville Montague Paul in British Guiana on January 8, 1945. As a high school student, Nnamdi and his friends opposed British colonialism, at odds with their parents. In 1967, a year after Guyana became independent from British rule , Nnamdi moved to Montreal , Canada to attend McGill University after his mother secretly saved her earnings from selling insurance and filled out an application on his behalf. While attending McGill, Nnamdi became interested in
280-773: The Black Power movement. After a year at McGill, Nnamdi moved to the New York City borough of Brooklyn in the U.S., where he worked on Wall Street and joined the Black Panther Party . However, not long after joining the Panthers, Nnamdi drifted out of the Party. Nnamdi had been seeking a Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanism supporting organisation, whereas by this time the Black Panthers had embraced internationalism and were committed to working with people of all races towards
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#1733085656618336-427: The " Kojo Nnamdi Show " where she discussed "the opportunities and hazards that come with using social networking sites." She also served as a guest on the radio program "Future Tense", where she discussed sexting. Lenhart has also appeared on "The Exchange", "The Kathleen Dunn Show", and MSNBC's " Countdown with Keith Olbermann ". Much of Lenhart's studies on teenagers focus on how they react to different elements of
364-584: The Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back". Melissa Long of the CNN Newsroom interviewed Lenhart in late 2009. For Lenhart's study on cyberbullying, her team interviewed 935 parent-child pairs and 700 parent-child pairs in 2006 and 2007, respectively. This study and analysis included such topics as harassment, bullying, safety, online usage, and victimization in the technologically advanced world and its findings were organized into
392-430: The article is "Not all :) as informal writing creeps into teen assignments", but Lenhart pointed out that such a slip is "a teachable moment." She stated, "If you find that in a child's or student's writing, that's an opportunity to address the differences between formal and informal writing. They learn to make the distinction ... just as they learn not to use slang terms in formal writing." In 2010, Lenhart conducted
420-451: The changing demographics of online users and the implications of those changes when it comes to safety, providers, and advertisers. Kojo Nnamdi Show Rex Orville Montague Paul (born January 8, 1945), better known as Kojo Nnamdi ( / ˈ k oʊ dʒ oʊ ˈ n ɑː m d i / KOH -joh NAHM -dee ), is a Guyanese-born American radio journalist based in Washington, D. C. He
448-516: The domain of boys - 94% of teen girls play games, as do 99% of teen boys." In a blog entry in which she discussed this study, Lenhart discussed gaming in terms of education and social connections. Lenhart's research into education explores how those within the field use technology. In an article by the Associated Press, she considered emoticons and other informal types of writing that have emerged with new technologies and texting. The title of
476-479: The on-air name "Brother Uwezo", Nnamdi became editor for Sauti , a news magazine program on WOL, in 1970. After marrying in 1971, he adopted the on-air name that he would use for the rest of his career, Kojo Nnamdi. He described it as an "African Christian name and surname that made more sense", first name "Kojo" being an Akan name for "Monday" and surname "Nnamdi" after the first President of Nigeria , Nnamdi Azikiwe . In 1973, Nnamdi became news editor at WHUR ,
504-453: The program after the late Mark Plotkin left in April 2002 to set up shop at all-news station WTOP , where he hosted The Politics Program . Originally called The Politics Hour , the name of Plotkin's show was changed after WAMU threatened a lawsuit. Nonetheless, Plotkin said in a 2006 online chat that he and Nnamdi remain friendly and regularly have dinner together. Every Tuesday the first half of
532-598: The radio station of Howard University , a historically black university in Washington. Later becoming news director, Nnamdi helped produce The Daily Drum , a local news program. Nnamdi left WHUR in 1985 to join Howard television station WHMM (later WHUT ) as host of Evening Exchange , a public affairs show. Nnamdi hosted Evening Exchange until 2011. On June 13, 1990, Evening Exchange received its highest viewership numbers when Washington mayor Marion Barry announced on
560-420: The research is telling us", Lenhart notes that understanding the identity needs of young people helps to explain why they participate in certain risk-taking activities online. Yet she has also noted that young people are learning to utilize digital media, even if those media are currently limited in their ability to fulfill young peoples' identity needs. As she stated, However, these new tools seem to ignore
588-604: The research is telling us", Lenhart considered how cyberbullying is understood and discussed among parent-child pairs. In a podcast by the Safe Internet Alliance, Lenhart joined Linda Criddle (president of Safe Internet Alliance), Nicol Turner-Lee (Vice President & Director of the Media and Technology Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies), and David McClure (President & CEO of USIIA) to discuss
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#1733085656618616-456: The show consists of a segment called Tech Tuesday that attempts to keep listeners current on various computer/computing and technology issues. For a number of years, the first Tuesday of the month featured "The Computer Guys," John Gilroy and Tom Pivovar . Pivovar left the program in early 2006 in a contract dispute and has been since replaced with a rotation of recurring expert guests, most of whom are employed at either Mid-Atlantic Consulting or
644-416: The show that he would not seek a fourth term. On August 31, 1998, Nnamdi became host of Public Interest on Washington public radio station WAMU , a show renamed from The Derek McGinty Show . In January of that year, previous host Derek McGinty left WAMU for CBS News . A two-hour program, one hour focused on local issues and was broadcast exclusively on WAMU, and the other discussed national topics and
672-520: The show was titled The D.C. Politics Hour and focused solely on the D.C.-area political scene. The show was renamed The Politics Hour in May 2008, after WAMU fired resident political analyst and Washington Examiner columnist Jonetta Rose Barras over a salary dispute. The show then featured guest analysts until the long-term hiring of WRC-TV political reporter Tom Sherwood in February 2009. Barras joined
700-452: The technologically based world. She explores topics such as blogging, texting, sexting, cyber bullying, and mobile phones, and relates these to the younger population. Lenhart has also explored how people of various ages engage in social networking sites. In an article on social media and young adults, Lenhart specifically looked at the decline in blogging and the simultaneous rise in the use of social networking sites such as Facebook . In
728-683: The web and with different new fads that spring from the evolving technologies. Lenhart has been a frequent spokesperson on trends in Internet and mobile cell phone use. In The New York Times , Lenhart was quoted in articles such as "Technology Leapfrogs Schools and Jurisdictions", "Top Kitchen Toy? The Cellphone", and "Tweeting? Odds Are You Live in a City". The Washington Post has cited Lenhart in many articles, including "Sexting hasn't reached most young teens, poll finds", "U.S. teens report 'frightening' levels of texting while driving", and "New Research: Adults & Videogames". In USA Today Lenhart
756-406: Was distributed by National Public Radio (NPR) to around 40 stations. On September 30, 2002, Public Interest was renamed The Kojo Nnamdi Show and dropped national distribution. On Fridays, Nnamdi hosts The Politics Hour , which covers topics related to political issues and events in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, including surrounding Maryland and Virginia regions. Before May 2008,
784-580: Was quoted in articles such as "Survey: Over half of adults, 50% of women play video games", "Survey: Nearly every kid a video gamer", and "Not all :) as informal writing creeps into teen assignments". She has also been interviewed by multiple T.V. and radio sources. In 2003, Lenhart discussed net dropouts on the radio program "On the Media". In 2006, Amanda Lenhart was a guest on the Talk of The Nation radio show, where she joined social networking researcher danah boyd and Internet safety expert Parry Aftab in
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