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January 10, 2004
NY Times on youth blogs
Posted by Clay Shirky
Emily Nussbaum has a piece in the NY Times Magazine,
My So-called Blog on weblogs among teenagers, and she gets it about the importance of blogs in the interconnected LiveJournal pattern, not just in the public disourse pattern most journalists cover (because that pattern looks familiar to them...)
In the news media, the blog explosion has been portrayed as a transformation of the industry, a thousand minipundits blooming. But the vast majority of bloggers are teens and young adults. Ninety percent of those with blogs are between 13 and 29 years old; a full 51 percent are between 13 and 19, according to Perseus. Many teen blogs are short-lived experiments. But for a significant number, they become a way of life, a daily record of a community's private thoughts -- a kind of invisible high school that floats above the daily life of teenagers.
Many of my students, already old old old at 25+, expect anyone they meet their age to have a Friendster page -- 15 years olds are soaking in it.
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