One Month Out

Out is an outlet for the most prominent voices of the LGBT community, many of whom express opinions on culture, politics, gay news, and more on Out.com. June 2017 features Toronto’s second Pride Month, culminating with the 37th annual Pride Parade on Sunday, June 25th.

Na. Po. Wri. Mo. Well, everyone, we all knew it was coming . I hope all of you had fun, and that if you didn’t get 3. As is usual, I’ll be back tomorrow with our final featured participant. I’ll also keep the participants’ list up and live until we start to get the site ready for next year, when we’ll go “dark” for a bit of annual housekeeping.

And of course, all this year’s posts and comments will remain as a permanent part of our archives. Our featured participant for the day is Words from a Lydian World, where the favorite- word poem for Day 2. Today’s interview is with Cathy Park Hong, whose pop- culture- filled verse explores language, genre and place, wheeling between the American west and the tech- industrial boomtowns of Asia. You can read more about here, and you will find two of her poems here, and another here. And finally, our final prompt – at least until next year! Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem about something that happens again and again (kind of like Na.

Po. Wri. Mo/Glo. Po. Wri. Mo). It could be the setting of the sun, or your Aunt Georgia telling the same story at Thanksgiving every single year. It could be the swallows returning to Capistrano or how, without fail, you will lock your keys in the car whenever you go to the beach.

Teens and Mobile Phones . Some 7. 5% of 1. 2- 1. Those phones have become indispensable tools in teen communication patterns. Fully 7. 2% of all teens – or 8.

That is a sharp rise from the 5. More than half of teens (5.

Among all teens, their frequency of use of texting has now overtaken the frequency of every other common form of interaction with their friends (see chart below). Fully two- thirds of teen texters say they are more likely to use their cell phones to text their friends than talk to them to them by cell phone.

One in three teens sends more than 1. Daily text messaging by teens to friends has increased rapidly since early 2.

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Some 3. 8% of teens were daily texters in February 2. September 2. 00. 9. Bonheur Académie. Of the 7. 5% of teens who own cell phones, 8.

Among those texters: Half of teens send 5. Boys typically send and receive 3. Teen texters ages 1. Older girls who text are the most active, with 1. However, while many teens are avid texters, a substantial minority are not. One- fifth of teen texters (2. Calling is still a central function of the cell phone for teens and for many teens, voice is the primary mode of conversing with parents.

Among cell- owning teens, using the phone for calling is a critically important function, especially when it comes to connecting with their parents. But teens make and receive far fewer phone calls than text messages on their cell phones.

Teens typically make or receive 5 calls a day. White teens typically make or receive 4 calls a day, or around 1. Hispanic teens typically make and receive 5 calls a day or about 1.

Girls more fully embrace most aspects of cell phone- based communication. As we see with other communicative technologies and applications, girls are more likely than boys to use both text messaging and voice calling and are likely to do each more frequently. Girls are also more likely than boys to text for social reasons, to text privately, and to text about school work. For parents, teens’ attachment to their phones is an area of conflict and regulation. Parents exert some measure of control over their child’s mobile phone – limiting its uses, checking its contents and using it to monitor the whereabouts of their offspring. In fact, the latter is one of the primary reasons many parents acquire a cell phone for their child. However, with a few notable exceptions, these activities by parents do not seem to impact patterns of cell phone use by teens.

Parents of 1. 2- 1. Limiting a child’s text messaging does relate to lower levels of various texting behaviors among teens – these teens are less likely to report regretting a text they sent, or to report sending sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images by text (also known as “sexting”). Teens whose parents limit their texting are also less likely to report being passengers in cars where the driver texted behind the wheel or used the phone in a dangerous manner while driving.

Most schools treat the phone as a disruptive force that must be managed and often excluded from the school and the classroom. Even though most schools treat the phone as something to be contained and regulated, teens are nevertheless still texting frequently in class. Still, 6. 5% of cell- owning teens at schools that completely ban phones bring their phones to school every day.

Cell phones help bridge the digital divide by providing internet access to less privileged teens. Still, for some teens, using the internet from their mobile phone is “too expensive.”Teens from low- income households, particularly African- Americans, are much more likely than other teens to go online using a cell phone. This is a pattern that mirrors Pew Internet Project findings about adults and their cell phones.

Only 7. 0% of teens in this income category have a computer in the home, compared with 9. Hispanic teens use their cell phones to go online, compared with 2. Cell phones are seen as a mixed blessing. Parents and teens say phones make their lives safer and more convenient. Yet both also cite new tensions connected to cell phone use. Parents and their teenage children say they appreciate the mobile phone’s enhancement of safety and its ability to keep teens connected to family and friends.

For many teens, the phone gives them a new measure of freedom. However, some teens chafe at the electronic tether to their parents that the phone represents. And a notable number of teens and their parents express conflicting emotions about the constant connectivity the phone brings to their lives; on the one hand, it can be a boon, but on the other hand, it can result in irritating interruptions. Cell phones are not just about calling or texting – with expanding functionality, phones have become multimedia recording devices and pocket- sized internet connected computers. Among teen cell phone owners: Teens who have multi- purpose phones are avid users of those extra features.

The most popular are taking and sharing pictures and playing music: 8. The majority of teens are on family plans where someone else foots the bill. There are a variety of payment plans for cell phones, as well as bundling plans for how phone minutes and texts are packaged, and a variety of strategies families use to pay for cell phones. Teens’ use of cell phones is strongly associated with the type of plan they have and who pays the phone bills.

When one combines type of plan with voice minutes, the most common combination is a family plan with limited voice minutes – one in three teen cell phone users (3. One in four teen cell phone users (2. Over half of all teen cell phone users are on family plans that someone else (almost always a parent) pays for entirely—this figure jumps to two- thirds among teens living in households with incomes of $5.

At the same time, low income teens are much less likely to be on family plans. Among teens living in households with incomes below $3.

In this group, 1. Black teens living in low income households are the most likely to have prepaid plans that they pay for themselves. Unlimited plans are tied to increases in use of the phone, while teens on “metered” plans are much more circumspect in their use of the phone. Fully three- quarters of teen cell phone users (7. Just 1. 3 percent of teen cell phone users pay per message. Those with unlimited voice and texting plans are more likely to call others daily or more often for almost every reason we queried – to call and check in with someone, to coordinate meeting, to talk about school work or have long personal conversations. Teens with unlimited texting typically send and receive 7.

A relatively small number of teens have sent and received sexually suggestive images by text: 1. Older teens are more likely to receive “sexts,” than younger teens. The teens who pay their own phone bills are more likely to send “sexts”: 1. Further details about “sexting” via cell phones may be found in our recent Teens and Sexting Report. One in three (3. 4%) texting teens ages 1. That translates into 2.

American teens ages 1. Half (5. 2%) of cell- owning teens ages 1. That translates into 4. American teens ages 1.

More details about cell phone use among teens and distracted driving maybe found in our earlier report Teens and Distracted Driving. New data forthcoming on Latino youth and their communication choices. Forthcoming from the Pew Hispanic Center, a sister project to the Pew Internet Project, is a new report about the ways young Latinos, ages 1. This report will contain results based on a national survey of Hispanics conducted in the fall of 2.

Over 1,2. 00 young Latinos were asked about the ways they communicate with each other, whether through text messaging, face- to- face contact, email or social network sites. This new forthcoming report is a follow- up to the report “Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America,” and will be available online at http: //www.