Children spending more time online than watching TV for the first time
This article discusses the rise in internet use amongst young children. A survey they done found that children spend more time on the internet then other traditional media consumption like TV. According to this article the use of TV has been declining since 2005, but the abrut change is shocking.
- average 5 to 15-year-olds were spending three hours a day using the internet, compared to 2.1 hours watching TV.
- That compares to time spent reading books for pleasure, which has declined from an hour a day on average in 2012 to just over half an hour on average this year.
However the the research, which is based on an online survey of more than 2,000 children, did not distinguish between TV-like services on the internet, such as Netflix/iPlayer, and other forms of browsing such as Facebook, meaning it is unclear whether children are merely watching shows in different ways. suggesting that children may have misinterpreted the question so research may be inaccurate.
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