Teens spend 9 hours a day with media

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Gutenberg
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Teens spend 9 hours a day with media

Post by Gutenberg » Sat Nov 07, 2015 9:47 pm

Teens spend 9 hours a day with media, 3-year-olds are “media multitaskers”

"In two separate surveys released this week, researchers reveal new insights into how kids, six months to 18 years old, use media. The most striking takeaway from the studies may be that screen time now transcends both age and socioeconomic status—some six-month-old infants in low-income families have their own dedicated mobile devices with Internet access, researchers found."


read more: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/ ... titaskers/

Original study: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/c ... .2015-2151

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