Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds

Contributing Organization(s): Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation


Author(s)/Creator(s): Donald F. Roberts; Ulla G. Foehr; Victoria Rideout

Publishing Date: 2005-03-09

Issue Areas: Media; Children and Youth; Health and Medicine

Ownership/Rights Info: The Kaiser Family Foundation is non-profit, private operating foundation dedicated to providing information and analysis on health care issues to policymakers, the media, the health care community and the general public. The Foundation is not associated w

A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey found children and teens are spending an increasing amount of time using "new media" like computers, the Internet and video games, without cutting back on the time they spend with "old" media like TV, print and music. Instead, because of the amount of time they spend using more than one medium at a time (for example, going online while watching TV), they're managing to pack increasing amounts of media content into the same amount of time each day.

The study, Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds, examined media use among a nationally representative sample of more than 2,000 3rd through 12th graders who completed detailed questionnaires, including nearly 700 self-selected participants who also maintained seven-day media diaries.

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Available at: http://www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia030905pkg.cfm


Intended Audience: Advocates; College/University Professors; General Public; Legislators/Legislative Aids; Parents; Policy Professionals; Researchers; Teachers-elementary; Teachers-middle school; Teachers-high school

Type/Format: Dataset; Whitepaper; Policy Brief; FactSheet; Survey; Ethnography; CaseStudy; Testimonial; MovingImage; StillImage; InteractiveResource

Language code: English

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