Dana Boyd from Microsoft Research was exploring teen practices, and collected questions for the questionnaire via Twitter. This certainly isn’t peer-reviewed, but there are lots of tasty morsels worth considering. Two:

@harraton: Do they care about their privacy? VERY much so. But what constitutes privacy for them is often quite different than what constitutes privacy for adults. Privacy is not dead.

and:

@dougthomas: Teens; what are their thoughts about downloading songs? films? software? without paying for it. They want access. Their parents won’t pay for it. They don’t have credit cards. They get what they are looking for by any means necessary. And those who get access to it traffic in that content among their peers who may be less technologically savvy/economically privileged.

Other good bits on lack of media literacy, lack of interest in Twitter, and a complete lack of association between the sites they love and the fields of computer science or design.