Research COP3

I found an amazing book in the library called Cyberkids by Sarah L. Halloway and Gill Valentine. This   book discuss a lot about the internet and teenagers in education and family.

1.The author argued that at this moment teenagers meant to explore the world not just use the internet all the time.

2.Some parents do rather borrowing money to buy a computer for their teenagers.

3.Parent sometimes seek for the teenagers to help them with the internet which have positive and negative impact to the family.

There are of course plenty more interesting topic and quotes in the book but those 3 points are the main points that I got.

Youth Internet Use: Risks and Opportunities

I also looked at another article about internet and teenager called Youth Internet Use: Risks and Opportunities (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/704888). This article is more general pros and cons of the internet to teenagers. These are some quote that I highlighted that have make my mind more open:-

Positive:-

• Internet is a positive tool for student to learn
• 'There is evidence that computer and internet use improves test'
• The internet can boost the student to study (motivational)
• Teenagers love to seek online information that they embarrassed/cannot find anyone to ask 

Negative:-

• Net addicitng - use the internet to escape from real world. 'internet addiction has a negative effect on academics (a drop in grades), family relations (having to hide their excessive Internet use from parents), physical health (sleep deprivation due to long hours of Internet use), mental health (depression), and finance (cost of accrued Internet expenses).'
• Addicted to online gaming 
• Online harassment by strangers and talking to strangers
• Cyber bullying 

Research Cop 3

For cop3, I want to investigate about the internet and teenagers. As I and everyone is awaring that the internet become a significant part of routine and life for people nowadays especially teenagers. Nowadays teenagers use the internet without knowing if it good or bad for them. 

These are some useful quotes that I found from this article (http://www.pewinternet.org/2007/10/24/parent-and-teen-internet-use/)  :-

• 89% of online teens say the internet and other devices in their lives like cell phones, iPods, and digital cameras make their lives easier, while 71% of their parents say these technologies make their lives easier.
• 87% of parents who have a child ages 12-17 use the internet
• Parents who use the internet frequently have teenage children who use the internet frequently.
• the tech profile of parents and teens often mirror each other. Parents who use the internet frequently have teenage children who use the internet frequently.
• Eighty-eight percent of all teens say that technology devices make their lives easier, compared with 69% of all parents who were asked about technology’s role in their own lives.
• parents who are highly educated are more likely to think that email and the internet have been good things for their children than parents with less education.
•  Over two-thirds of parents (68%) say they have rules about the kinds of internet sites their teenaged children can or cannot visit, as well as rules about what kinds of information their children can share with people they talk to on the internet.

Of course there are so many things that we can argue with thos quotes. I just need to read more books/articles/journals.