Pew Research Center

FOR RELEASE AUGUST 14, 2003

Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Networked Generation

This presentation covered our basic findings about how American teenagers use the Internet.

BY Lee Rainie

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Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Networked Generation

This presentation covered our basic findings about how American teenagers use the Internet.

This is a speech Lee gave in Singapore to an audience of government officials, academics and industry executives. This presentation covered our basic findings about how American teenagers use the Internet and the implications of that Internet use on their social worlds and the world they would create in the future.