SOPA Fight Is Top Story for Young People
RSSBy Lauren Barack
That makes sense to librarians. They know young people, who spend so much of their lives online, would be likely to follow news involving sites they visit. "Given that Google and Wikipedia were so involved, it's not surprising that young people followed the PIPA/SOPA stories," says Pat Massey, a library media specialist at South Plainfield (NJ) High School, about the proposed federal antipiracy bills that prompted tech companies opposed the legislation, including Wikipedia and WordPress, to black out their sites on January 18 in protest. "The blackouts were very effective attention grabbers," she adds. Read more on The Digital Shift...
Young people under 30 followed protests over SOPA more closely than news about the upcoming presidential election, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.
