Post by jeffolie on Jul 3, 2010 14:38:00 GMT -6
Kids are spending their waking hours mostly consuming TV via different platforms. White kids are in the many media platforms about 8 hours while blacks and hispanics about 13 hours. That is a 5 hour difference that White kids do not spend in the media. Guess what the heavier media users are minorities and less get good grades. Over 80% have internet at home and they spend over an hour on it.
There are 45 pages of powerpoint like slides here you should see. They are simple and quick to understand.
I recommend linking to this article so that you can read the 45 slide presentation.
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The Shocking Media Habits Of 8-18 Year Olds
Dude, my parents let me watch TV in my bedroom.
Kids are leading the world's transition to digital media.
This is in part because kids aren't afraid of technology, and in part because kids haven't spent years getting use to anything else.
So if you want to get a sense of where the world's media habits are headed, it makes sense to watch what kids are doing.
The Kaiser Family Foundation did just that in a comprehensive survey released early this year. Kaiser surveyed more than 2,000 families, and turned up all sorts of interesting information about the media habits of 8-18 year olds.
Some key points:
Kids consume a heck of a lot of media--and more all the time. Basically, if kids are awake, they're consuming media. And, increasingly, they're consuming multiple forms of media at the same time.
Kids' print media consumption is tiny and falling.
Kids' digital media consumption is going through the roof.
No big surprise there. What is a surprise is how little parents seem to care about this. (Or, alternatively, how much parents encourage this media consumption by consuming a huge amount of media themselves.)
In 2/3 of households, TVs are on during meals
In 75% of households, TVs are on when no one is watching them.
More than 70% of kids have TVs in their bedrooms
Only 1/3 of households have media-consumption rules
No surprise, more media is consumed in households in which TVs are always on, where there are no media consumption rules, and where kids have TVs in their bedrooms.
And, no surprise, kids who consume the most media get the worst grades (but is this cause or effect?)
It's a long presentation, but it's awesome.
Flip through the presentation here >
Read more: www.businessinsider.com/the-shocking-media-habits-of-8-18-year-olds-2010-7#ixzz0seYdsTc7
There are 45 pages of powerpoint like slides here you should see. They are simple and quick to understand.
I recommend linking to this article so that you can read the 45 slide presentation.
===========================================================
The Shocking Media Habits Of 8-18 Year Olds
Dude, my parents let me watch TV in my bedroom.
Kids are leading the world's transition to digital media.
This is in part because kids aren't afraid of technology, and in part because kids haven't spent years getting use to anything else.
So if you want to get a sense of where the world's media habits are headed, it makes sense to watch what kids are doing.
The Kaiser Family Foundation did just that in a comprehensive survey released early this year. Kaiser surveyed more than 2,000 families, and turned up all sorts of interesting information about the media habits of 8-18 year olds.
Some key points:
Kids consume a heck of a lot of media--and more all the time. Basically, if kids are awake, they're consuming media. And, increasingly, they're consuming multiple forms of media at the same time.
Kids' print media consumption is tiny and falling.
Kids' digital media consumption is going through the roof.
No big surprise there. What is a surprise is how little parents seem to care about this. (Or, alternatively, how much parents encourage this media consumption by consuming a huge amount of media themselves.)
In 2/3 of households, TVs are on during meals
In 75% of households, TVs are on when no one is watching them.
More than 70% of kids have TVs in their bedrooms
Only 1/3 of households have media-consumption rules
No surprise, more media is consumed in households in which TVs are always on, where there are no media consumption rules, and where kids have TVs in their bedrooms.
And, no surprise, kids who consume the most media get the worst grades (but is this cause or effect?)
It's a long presentation, but it's awesome.
Flip through the presentation here >
Read more: www.businessinsider.com/the-shocking-media-habits-of-8-18-year-olds-2010-7#ixzz0seYdsTc7