We recently wrote about how youth are using their phones in Asia, as reported by Synovate. Reports are well and good, great for stats to feed those marketing types who crave quantitative (yes, we are guilty). But the real insights come from the mouths of babes, as it were, qualitative-style. Anastasia Goodstein from YPulse […]
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What Do Teens Want? Just Ask.
April 8th, 2008 by Allison
Tags: Books · Entertainment · Gaming · Movies · Music · Social Networking · TV & Web Video · Teens · Tweens · Virtual Worlds & Avatars · Web · Youth Trends
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When Avatars Go Bad!
September 26th, 2007 by NGT
Avatar and virtual worlds have been popping up in books for a while now. Snow Crash introduced the virtual villain in 1992 and the killer in 2005’s Cast of Shadows is tracked down in a virtual world.
Now Virtual Worlds are getting so mainstream, they’ve made it onto broadcast TV. On next week’s “Law & Order: […]
Tags: Books · Movies · TV & Web Video · Virtual Worlds & Avatars
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Harry Potter Inspires Political Activism
July 24th, 2007 by NGT
Launch Parties
The release of the seventh and final installment of Harry Potter on Friday night was high school graduation–a bittersweet celebration. We joined in on the excitement surrounding the midnight release in New York City (for strictly journalistic purposes, of course).
Scholastic, the books’ American publishing house, conjured up a “Diagon Alley” behind their HQ. […]
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Spoiler Alert: Harry Potter Hits Web
July 18th, 2007 by Marc
Our willpower is being tested. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final installment in the Harry Potter series, has been leaked onto the Internet. Scheduled for release this Saturday, the book fell into the hands of a grinch who took a picture of every page and made it available on BitTorrent. Spoilers […]
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