[Apologies for cross-posting for those that are subscribed to multiple related lists.] Hi all, Over the past five years there have been a few studies by the Pew Center and others (Ezster Hargittai/colleagues) that have given us some nice descriptive statistics of the percentage of American teenagers and young adults circulating various kinds of media content online: writing, photographs, art work, music, and others. I was wondering if anyone on this list knows of any similar statistics from other countries or global regions, either at a country level, a regional level, or even of a group that is argued to be representative of larger regions (e.g. Hargittai's studies of college freshmen). Some studies of American populations: Hargittai and Walejko 2008. The Participation Divide: Content Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age. http://webuse.org/p/a23/ Lenhart et al. 2007. Teen Content Creators. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/670/teen-content-creators Lenhart et al. 2010. Social Media and Young Adults. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx (If there are studies of American populations that might enhance some of these numbers, or even challenge them, that would be nice to know as well.) I couldn't find anything in the EU Kids Go Online project specifically on "content creation" or "creative production" but I easily may have missed something there. The Creative Commons' study on "Defining Non-commercial production" is helpful. (https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127) Any study with broad descriptive statistics of these kinds of activities would be helpful, even if it's only with adults, however that legal category may defined in various countries. Thanks in advance for any assistance, Dan ------------------------------------ Dan Perkel PhD Candidate School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media UC Berkeley http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel