Report: 50% of Mainstream Media Tech Talk Is About Risk and Fear

For positive high tech news, head to your favorite blog, social media site or Twitter. That’s the advice from a new Pew study that found social media has a vastly different, more positive set of attitudes towards technology than mainstream media. A yearlong review of technology news coverage by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that blogs, social media sites and social networking sites report more excitement about technological advancements and the businesses behind the developments.

In contrast, the mainstream media focused almost as much on the perils of technology – privacy, cyberstalking, texting – as the positive.

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