Children, Media, and Race: Media Use Among White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Children
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -Continuing Education 11-Continuing Education |
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Computer Engineering Computer Science Computing Diversity Engineering Diversity Engineering Education Research Information Systems Information Technology Software Engineering |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Organization:31. Northwestern University, Center on New Media & Human Dev |
| Description: | "This report documents differences in the role of media in the lives of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian children in the United States: which types of media they use, how much time they spend in various media activities, which media platforms and devices they own, and what the media environment is like in their households. The data presented here are the result of new analyses of two data sets, breaking out the findings by race and ethnicity: the 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation Generation M2 survey of media use among 8- to 18-year-olds, and the Foundation’s 2006 survey about media use among children age six and under (The Media Family). Historically, scholars have been aware of differences in the amount of time that White and minority children spend with media, especially TV. But last year's Generation M2 study indicated a large increase in the amount of time both Black and Hispanic youth are spending with media, to the point where they are consuming an average of 13 hours worth of media content a day (12:59 for Blacks and 13:00 for Hispanics), compared with about eight and a half hours (8:36) for White youth, a difference of about four and a half hours a day. In recent years, this gap in media use between White and Black youth has doubled, and between White and Hispanic youth it has quadrupled." |
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| Keywords: | new media |
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Useful report in creating media and mobile learning applications for different ethnic populations. |
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| Publication Date: | June 2011 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://web5.soc.northwestern.edu/cmhd/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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