• How Young People View Their Lives, Futures and Politics
  A Portrait of Generation Next
  (tags: youth culture)

• The trouble with teens [Belfast Telegraph]
  They’re moody, impulsive and they sleep till the afternoon. Now scientists say they can’t help it – it’s just the way their brains work
  (tags: youth culture sleep science)

• Is there any limit for ‘American Idol’? [CNN.com]
  As “American Idol” starts singing again Tuesday, those connected with the Fox blockbuster acknowledge few limits when it comes to guest stars or ratings or product spinoffs. Or even rampant enthusiasm.
  (tags: youth culture music television media)

• Several boys die copying Saddam hanging [Yahoo! News]
  The boys’ deaths — scattered in the United States, in Yemen, in Turkey and elsewhere in seemingly isolated horror — had one thing in common: They hanged themselves after watching televised images of Saddam Hussein’s execution.
  (tags: youth culture suicide)

• ‘U’ study: More teenagers raiding medicine cabinets for drugs [Campus Life]
  More and more teens are getting their fix from the corner pharmacy instead of the corner drug dealer, according to a major study released by the University.
  (tags: youth culture drugs)

• Policy in City High Schools Criticized as Social Promotion [The New York Sun]
  “Seat-time credit,” a policy that allows failing students to earn points toward passing a class just by sitting in their seats is treated as an acceptable practice in city high schools two years after Mayor Bloomberg declared the end of social promotion i
  (tags: youth culture school)

• Game console can be porn gateway [WFAA.com]
  But these machines aren’t just hot among kids; they’re also compatible with sexually-oriented Web sites.
  (tags: youth culture sex internet)

• How to help adult kids stand on their own two financial feet [CNN Money]
  Two of three grads return home today. Skip the you-got-it-good jokes and get set for a new stage of parenting.
  (tags: youth culture college parents money)

• Disney.com Goes Social To Boost Brand Engagement [MediaPost Publications]
  LESS THAN A WEEK BEFORE the scheduled launch of Disney’s social network, analysts are wary of whether Mickey’s club can achieve MySpace’s success.
  (tags: youth culture internet myspace blogs social_networking)

• Middle School Girls Gone Wild [New York Times]
  It’s hard to write this without sounding like a prig. But it’s just as hard to erase the images that planted the idea for this essay, so here goes. The scene is a middle school auditorium, where girls in teams of three or four are bopping to pop songs
  (tags: youth culture school dancing)

• 30 Seconds of Fame at Super Bowl XLI Will Cost $2.6 Million [New York Times]
  A MONTH before Super Bowl XLI, it remains unclear which teams will face off on Feb. 4 in Miami. In the other big game that night — the battle of the Super Bowl advertisers — the lineup is becoming clearer.
  (tags: youth culture sports)

• The good, the bad and the digital [USATODAY.com]
  The evolution of the music business to a digital marketplace continued apace in 2006, bringing with it the customary mix of good and bad news from Nielsen SoundScan.
  (tags: youth culture music internet)

• In dorms, men and women now room together [csmonitor.com]
  Some 20 colleges allow coed rooms. Friendships – not sexual intimacy – tend to motivate students to sign up.
  (tags: youth culture college)

• Measures Like a Teen Majority on Social Networks [InternetNews]
  A new study shows that more than half of all American teens use online social networking sites. But the study also shows that those hormone-surging masses are using the sites in ways you might not expect.
  (tags: youth culture social_networking)

• Ads in Video Games Get Frighteningly Creative [FOXNews.com]
  Crouched in military fatigues, you peer through night-vision goggles and brandish a semiautomatic gun as you hunt down terrorists who’ve overtaken Las Vegas.
  (tags: youth culture video_games marketing)

According to Tivo the top 10 TV moments of 2006 were

1. Katie Couric’s last day on “Today”
2. Mel Gibson’s interview with Diane Sawyer after his DWI arrest
3. Oprah tells author James Frey he betrayed readers
4. Sara and Grissom get together on “CSI”
5. Faith Hill’s reaction to Carrie Underwood’s win at “CMA Awards”
6. Kirstie Alley’s bikini reveal on “Oprah”
7. “Will & Grace” series finale in which their kids start dating
8. Kate and Sawyer get together on “Lost”
9. Rosie O’Donnell’s debut on “The View”
10. Connie Chung attempting a sultry serenade of Maury Povich

Technorati Tags: tivo, television, tv, top 10

• Talk in Class Turns to God, Setting Off Public Debate on Rights – New York Times
  Before David Paszkiewicz got to teach his accelerated 11th-grade history class about the United States Constitution this fall, he was accused of violating it.
  (tags: youth culture school science evolution)

• Teen rebellion – a Western export? [BBC NEWS]
  In the second of a series about young people around the world as part of the BBC’s Generation Next season, the BBC’s Robin Lustig asks if teenage rebellion is a natural phenomenon or nurtured by Western pop culture.
  (tags: youth culture music media)

• Teen Web posts are rich source for police work [newsobserver.com]
  When police went to search a Wilmington rental house for stolen Playstation 3 consoles last week, they brought heavily armed deputies because a picture on the Internet had made them think the college students inside might be armed.
  (tags: youth culture myspace blogs internet meida)