{"id":1358,"date":"2008-11-24T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2008-11-24T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:18:14","slug":"kids-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/11\/24\/kids-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:mm5OEZmE8t2-JM:http:\/\/img.thesun.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/00521\/facebook_280_521420a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Two tidbits for your Monday morning, courtesy my colleagues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporaryfamilies.org\">CCF<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/education\/story\/71EC53 18EE04BF0E8625750700110493?OpenDocument\">Study Suggests &#8216;Hanging Out&#8217; on Facebook, MySpace Isn&#8217;t a Waste for Teens,<\/a>&#8221; Joe Crawford, St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/p>\n<p>A study by the MacArthur Foundation concludes that interaction with new media such as Facebook is increasingly becoming an essential part of becoming a competent citizen in the digital age. And further, all that Web surfing isn&#8217;t necessarily eroding the intelligence or initiative of the young generation. &#8220;It may look like kids are wasting a lot of time online, but they&#8217;re actually learning a lot of social, technical and also media literacy skills,&#8221; said Mizuko Ito, a researcher at the University of California, Irvine who lead the study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/34700679.html\">Teen Birth Rate Falls to 28-Year Low<\/a>, John Fauber, Milwaukee, Journal-Sentinel<br \/>\nContraception, abstinence, media campaigns all helping to influence city&#8217;s youth, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two tidbits for your Monday morning, courtesy my colleagues at CCF: &#8220;Study Suggests &#8216;Hanging Out&#8217; on Facebook, MySpace Isn&#8217;t a Waste for Teens,&#8221; Joe Crawford, St. Louis Post-Dispatch A study by the MacArthur Foundation concludes that interaction with new media such as Facebook is increasingly becoming an essential part of becoming a competent citizen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,100],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sexuality","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}