In a 2011 telephone survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 30 percent of teenagers who were regularly online had shared a password with a friend, boyfriend or girlfriend. The survey, of 770 teenagers aged 12 to 17, found that girls were almost twice as likely as boys to share. And in more than two dozen interviews, parents, students and counselors said that the practice had become widespread.
In a recent column on the tech-news Web site Gizmodo, Sam Biddle called password sharing a linchpin of intimacy in the 21st century
Out on the Town, Always Online | NYT
The NYT does some mobile ethnography.
A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.m4v (by UserExperiencesWorks)
Also:
If you’re wary of the idea that new types of screens can change our behavior, think again. Have you noticed your children pressing shapes on static posters, thinking they can move them as they do on a tablet computer? Have you ever tried to swipe your finger across a TV or another, non-touch-screen gadget’s display not long after using a smart phone’s tactile commands? The answer is likely yes. These are two good examples of how quickly our perception of what things can do shifts.
(via Seoul on Display: How Global Screen Culture Will Affect Us)
‘Connected’ Sheds Light on Our Addiction to Social Technology
Tiffany Shlain’s feature-length documentary Connected is an intensely personal exploration of what human connection means in our modern, technology-obsessed world. In anticipation of the film’s release in New York next week, she shares an excerpt that looks at how our brain chemistry compels us to reach for our gadgets 24-7.
A nice infographic from Microsoft, based on research they conducted looking at people’s behaviour on the web (via We are social)
