Transcript Some Questions for You About Media Use and Exposure

Some Questions for You
About Media Use and
Exposure
• The typical American child spends an
average of _____ hours a week
consuming media outside of the classroom
8
6 hr: 43
min/day
7
6
5
4
3 hr: 34
min/day
3
2
1
0
2-7 yr olds
8 and older
• What proportion of children and teens
have a TV in their bedroom?
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•
•
•
•
What percent of American households
have a TV?
60%
70%
80%
90%
None of the above
100
90
Percent of American
Households
98
97.8
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Have at least one TV
Own a VCR
The average American spends
4 hours a day watching TV
______
50 days per year.
– almost ______
By the age of 65, he or she will
9 years
have spent ______
watching TV.
78% of Americans consider
watching TV with their
children a family activity
77% of families
have cable TV
A troubling trend is the rapid proliferation of
VCRs and DVDs and the expansion of cable
television and movie channels. This has
increased the amount of programming
available for young people to see and has
blurred the distinction between television and
movie programming.
It has also made the viewing of
extremely violent and sexuallyexplicit movies accessible for
millions of youth right in their own
homes, often in their bedrooms
because so many have their own TV
sets.
After TV, what is the media of choice for
most children and especially teens?
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TV
•
World Wide Web
•
Movies
•
Video games
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Music
After TV, music is the medium of
choice for most children,
especially teens.
From Kids & Media @ the New Millenium
study by the Kaiser Family Foundation
What do high school students report as their
#1 non-school activity?
• a. TV viewing
• b. Surfing the World Wide Web
• c. Watching movies
• d. Playing video games
• e. Listening to music
Students report listening to music
as their #1 non-school activity
Young people spend an average
of almost an hour and a half a
day listening to CDs, tapes, or
the radio.
From Kids & Media @ the New Millenium
study by the Kaiser Family Foundation
87% of teens report
listening to music
after school and
2/3rds report listening
to music as a hobby
In the past 3 months,
71% of teens purchased
at least one full-length
music CD
Teens listen to 10,500
hours of popular music
between 7th and 12th
grades – just 500 fewer
than they spend in
school over 12 years
• Most watched TV network by teen girls:
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WB (Warner Bros)
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MTV
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Comedy Central
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Fox
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CBS
75% of 9-12 yr olds and
80% of 12-14 yr olds
watch music videos
One
More
Girls 11-19
watch
MTV more than any
other network
Time!!!
• Teens spend more of their time while on
line on the World Wide Web in this activity:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Homework (education)
Entertainment
Shopping
Communications
Work
"entertainment"
19%
"other activities"
4%
"work"
8%
"shopping"
8%
"communications"
12%
"education"
17%
"personal
information"
16%
"time wasting"
16%
How Teens Spend Their Time On-Line
Unsupervised “Surfing”
Many kids have Internet access in their own
homes. Many go-online when they first come
home from school and when their parents are not
home.
16
Teens make up ______%
of
the population, but
26
purchase _____%
of movie
tickets