Maybe it has to do with sky-high levels of youth unemployment. Maybe it’s because student loan levels are climbing. Maybe it’s because today’s young’uns will someday be stuck supporting so many of their elders.

The youth of South Africa — irrespective of their backgrounds and cultural differences — are starting to take awareness in what’s happening in the world.

Teenagers’ preferences and tastes greatly influence America’s cultural identity

The Hip-Hop Word Count (HHWC) is a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of over 40,000 Hip-Hop songs from 1979 to present day.

Once upon a time, MTV was the place to discover what was or would be hot on the music scene, though it’s been quite a while since the channel traveled that road.

They’re moody. Secretive. Infuriating! Now scientists are starting to figure out why.

At the beginning of the school year I asked our middle schoolers to write their burden down.

“Focus on making an excellent product. If you do so then all of your marketing will be true… and most of the marketing will be done by us.”

Forget cybercriminals or data-collecting advertisers. If you’re a teen, the most likely privacy threat to your Facebook account is probably your mother.

Concerns about cyberbullying have moved back to the front burner amid the agony over a Rutgers University student’s suicide after two fellow students were accused of secretly streaming video of him in a sexual encounter with a man over the Internet.

Today the US Patent and Trademark Office approved a patent Apple filed in 2008, which, get this, prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages. The patent’s official title? “Text-based communication control for personal communication device” which actually doesn’t use the pretty ridiculous noun/verb “Sexting,” but come on, we all know what they mean.