57% of US Teens Create Media

Authored by Jay Baage on July 13, 2006 - 8:57am.

Check out this interesting article by MIT's Henry Jenkins. Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program

"According to a 2005 study

conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 57 percent of American teens who use the internet could be considered media creators. For the purpose of the study, a media creator was defined as someone who “created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations.” Most American teens online have done two or more of these activities. 33 percent of teens share what they create online with others.19 percent create new works by remixing content they appropriated from another source."

Link to the full article:
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/07/learning_by_remixing.html